Libya frees brother of servant in diplomatic row Middle East Online | GENEVA - Libya has freed a brother of one of the servants who triggered the controversial arrest of Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi's son in Switzerland last year, the servant's lawyer said Monday. | The 24-year-old Moroccan, Isam Morchid Mortada, disappeared in the Libyan capital Tripoli in July 200...
Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Sue U.K. to Make Evidence Public Wall Street Journal Associated Press | LONDON -- Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees were asking judges on Tuesday to order the British government to make public allegations that it was complicit in their torture. | The men are among 11 people suing Britain over its alleged collusion in their mistreatment overseas. B...
Algeria: three Moroccans charged with terrorism The Siasat Daily | Algiers, November 11: Three Moroccans were sentenced to three years in prison by the criminal court in Algiers Monday, convicted of belonging to an active terrorist group in the country, a national press agency reported. | Yacine Bouheltit, Bilel A...
What Goldstone says about the US Al Jazeera | Opponents of the Goldstone report might well be hoping that after its lopsided condemnation in the US House of Representatives and successful relegation back to the UN's Human Rights Commission, the report will become little more than an historical...
Algeria: three Moroccans charged with terrorism Middle East Online | ALGIERS - Three Moroccans were sentenced to three years in prison by the criminal court in Algiers Monday, convicted of belonging to an active terrorist group in the country, a national press agency reported. | Yacine Bouheltit, Bilel Al-Aloui and ...
Morocco judge stands abuse trial Al Jazeera | A Moroccan judge has appeared in court accused of torturing his 11-year-old maid. | The trial of Khaled Alchuti has now been adjourned until Saturday. | Meanwhile, Alchuti's wife has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail, a punishment th...
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Sarkozy 'wields butcher's hook' The Times | FRANCE'S former intelligence chief has accused President Nicolas Sarkozy of abusing his power to pursue a vendetta against a former prime minister and political rival. | Yves Ber...
Police probe torture charge against MI6 The Australian | BRITISH police are investigating an allegation of torture against the country's MI6 foreign spy agency, Scotland Yard says. The case involves an unidentified non-British national...
MI6 reports own officer over torture allegations The Guardian | Secret Intelligence Service referred case to attorney general on own initiative, David Miliband reveals in letter | The foreign secretary, David Miliband, said the case of the MI...
Feds seize computers, cash at Fla. lawyer's office The Miami Herald | FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme. | The firm, Rothstein R...
Documents, Ferrari key seized in raid on Scott Rothstein's law firm The Miami Herald | During a raid of the Fort Lauderdale offices of attorney Scott Rothstein, federal agents seized 44 boxes of documents, including settlement statements, bank records, Rothstein's flight itinerary to Morocco and the key to his Ferrari. Rothstein is u...
Rothstein raid documents include Morocco plane ticket Business Journal Speaking Up Buffalo Bills or Buffalo Sabres? Rothstein joins restaurant group Investment flap snares RRA's Rothstein New space is taken off FBI’s most-wanted list | Agents with the FBI and IRS seized records from the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law ...
Turkey Says It Won't Arrest Sudan President During Visit Wall Street Journal By NICHOLAS BIRCH in Konya, Turkey, and SARAH CHILDRESS in Nairobi, Kenya | Turkey will receive Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir next week and has no plans to arrest him, despite his indictment by an international court for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, senior Turkish officials said Thursday. | Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic ...
Chavez, Gadhafi aim to boost 'South-South' ties at Africa-South America summit Star Tribune | CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez says Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is more than welcome to pitch his tent in Venezuela as the two of them make a diplomatic push for closer ties between Africa and South America at a weekend summit. | The Libyan leader caused an uproar in the New York City suburbs over his insistence on putting up a tent this ...
