Turkish author acquitted, but law stays
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One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" &#151; a crime Western-looking Turks view as an embarrassment and one of the biggest obstacles to joining the European Union.
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The High Court has acquitted Rashid Saleh Hemed who, together with five others, were charged with conspiracy to murder, following a bomb blast at the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam, in 1998.
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An Indonesian court dismissed on   Wednesday a blasphemy case against an editor who published   controversial cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad last   year, saying the prosecution used a wrong legal article.
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Turkey's highest court rules that controversial constitutional reforms passed by the government are valid.
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A Moroccan court has acquitted a man once held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp of terrorism charges, a report said late Wednesday.
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Iranian-Canadian intellectual and author Ramin Jahanbegloo is freed after nearly four months in custody, agencies report.
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A prominent Turkish politician was convicted Friday of breaching Swiss anti-racism laws by saying that the early 20th-century killing of Armenians could not be described as genocide. The Turkish foreign ministry reacted swiftly to the decision, saying in a statement that it was saddened by the Swiss court's ruling to punish Dogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers' Party, and to ignore "his freedom of expression."
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BAGHDAD: An Iraqi judge denied Thursday that murder charges against the former head of Iraq&#39;s special tribunal, Salam Chalabi, had been dropped after the prominent lawyer declared he had been found innocent.
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Two British tourists accused over the hit-and-run killing of a Cypriot schoolboy last summer have been acquitted after a court in Cyprus ruled there was a lack of evidence.
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ISTANBUL -- In a new case pitting free speech against Turkish nationalists, a young novelist is due in court here this week to defend herself against charges that she insulted ``Turkishness" because a character in her newest book, ``The Bastard of Istanbul," refers to the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
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A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a writer of insulting the country's founder amid calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan  Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting  his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an  article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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An Austrian court has upheld a guilty verdict imposed on British historian David Irving for denying the existence of the Holocaust, Austrian media have reported.
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A writer went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting the founder of modern Turkey in a biography about the revered late leader's wife, amid growing calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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Turkish officials decide not to allow the publication of private diaries of the ex-wife of the country's founding father.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 21 -- A leading Turkish author was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touches on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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One of the key conspirators of the Bali bomb plot, Idris, has escaped punishment despite confessing to the crime. A Jakarta court threw out the charges against Idris today