Russian Court Overturns Acquittal of Suspected Spy
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian  scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his  earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state  security forces.
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Kuwait's highest court of appeal overturned the conviction of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on Tuesday, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.
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A divided federal appeals court today dismissed a case challenging a National Security Agency wiretap program, reversing a trial judgeâs order that the program be shut down.
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MOSCOW  - The Russian Supreme Court upheld an arms-control researcher's conviction on treason charges Tuesday, in a case lawyers and rights advocates say is part of a campaign of intimidation by law-enforcement agencies against academics and the press.
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A highly publicized piracy case against a schoolteacher in Russia was dismissed on Thursday, with a Russian District Court saying the case against the man was "trivial."
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KRASNOYARSK, November 5 (Itar-Tass) - Members of the jury of the Krasnoyarsk regional court on Friday passed a âguiltyâ verdict on physicist Valentin Danilov who is accused of divulging state secrets to China and fraudulent activities.
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A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China was given a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a trial that rights advocates denounced as part of a campaign of intimidation against scholars by Russia's resurgent KGB successor agency.
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The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from an arms control researcher who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason in what rights advocates have called a politically motivated case.
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Canada is to deport a suspected Russian spy after the man admitted he was not Canadian and had been there illegally.
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A German court acquitted the suspected  right-hand man of international guerrilla "Carlos the Jackal"  Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in  France more than 20 years ago.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday found the Russian authorities responsible for the killings of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered Moscow to pay a relative $114,000.
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A court in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia, on Wednesday sentenced Russian physicist Valentin Danilov to 14 years in prison for spying for China.
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin, dubbed the âBittsa Maniacâ in Russian media, was found guilty today of murdering 48 people.
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Col. Yuri Budanov, a Russian officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman he accused of being a sniper, was pardoned by a regional amnesty commission, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
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Yevgeny Adamov, the former atomic energy minister who Washington accused of stealing millions in U.S. government funds, was found guilty Tuesday of fraud and abuse of office.
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A Russian court on Monday halted the  retrial of three men accused of the 2004 murder of U.S.  journalist Paul Klebnikov, because one of the defendants was  still at large, court officials and a defense lawyer said.