Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has arrived by helicopter at court to hear the verdict in a trial about his alleged role in the killing of hundreds of anti-government protesters during last year’s uprising that forced him from power. Hundreds of police Saturday surrounded the court, set up at a police academy on Cairo’s outskirts. […]
India Convicts 23 for 2002 Deadly Religious Riots in Gujarat
Posted April 9th, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC-5)
A court in India has convicted 23 people in connection with the killing of nearly two dozen Muslims during religious riots that swept through the western state of Gujarat in 2002. The court on Monday found the 23 suspects guilty of setting fire to a house in Gujarat’s Ode village where Muslim families had taken […]
Taiwan Court Jails Ex-Soldier in Wrongful Execution Case
Posted December 12th, 2011 at 4:15 pm (UTC-5)
A Taiwan court has sentenced a retired soldier to jail for 18 years for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl, more than a decade after another soldier was wrongfully executed for the crime. Taipei’s District Court said Monday it would have imposed a stiffer sentence for 35-year-old defendant Hsu Rong-chou, but said evidence […]
Taiwan Court Jails Ex-Soldier in Wrongful Execution Case
Posted December 12th, 2011 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
A Taiwan court has sentenced a retired soldier to jail for 18 years for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl, more than a decade after another soldier was wrongfully executed for the crime. Taipei’s District Court said Monday it would have imposed a stiffer sentence for 35-year-old defendant Hsu Rong-chou, but said evidence […]
Taiwan Court Jails Ex-Soldier in Wrongful Execution Case
Posted December 12th, 2011 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
A Taiwan court has sentenced a retired soldier to jail for 18 years for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl, more than a decade after another soldier was wrongfully executed for the crime. Taipei’s District Court said Monday it would have imposed a stiffer sentence for 35-year-old defendant Hsu Rong-chou, but said evidence […]
Jury in Antigua Convicts Pair in Slaying of Honeymooners
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 1:50 am (UTC-5)
A jury has convicted two Antinguan men of murdering a Welsh couple during their honeymoon on the popular Caribbean vacation island. The two men, Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin, were found guilty Wednesday of shooting to death Benjamin and Catherine Mullany in their luxury beach cottage in an apparent robbery attempt in 2008. Howell and […]
“Eco-Terrorists” Found Guilty in Swiss Trial
Posted July 22nd, 2011 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Three eco-terrorists were found guilty in Switzerland Friday for their involvement in a foiled plot to blow up an unfinished IBM nanotech research center near Zurich. The verdict in Switzerland’s highest criminal court found Costantino Alfonso Ragusa, his wife Silvia Ragusa Guerini and their Swiss friend, Luca “Billy” Cristos Bernasconi, guilty of conspiring last year […]
Sensational US Murder Trial Ends With “Not Guilty” Verdict
Posted July 5th, 2011 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
A jury in Florida has found a 25-year-old woman not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, in one of the most sensational murder cases in recent U.S. history. The jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first degree murder, child abuse and aggravated assault of a child in the 2008 death of her daughter […]
