Lawyer says Ashtiani was tortured before interview recorded in Tabiz prison, and fears execution imminent.
A 14-year-old girl was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison and deportation for having consensual sex with a 28-year-old school bus driver.
William Dougherty spent 40 years servicing appliances for Sears Roebuck before being fired from the Concord, Calif., branch at the age of 64.
The public will be in danger from unmonitored criminals if the Government pushes through a "devastating" programme of job cuts in the justice system, ministers have been warned.
Thailand´s top court has refused to hear an appeal by ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra against the seizure of assets worth almost $1.5bn (£950m).
Australian publishers will be tempted to move their businesses and assets to the US in the wake of a new law shielding US journalists and publishers from defamation from outside the country, a Sydney lawyer says.
A protest at the U.N. compound and a cabinet minister´s three-day "fast unto death" has not deterred U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from proceeding with a probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.
Toyota Motors said Wednesday it´s halting shipments to Iran following international moves to put financial and commercial pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions.
Brazil has formalized its offer of asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning, Brazilian state-run media said Tuesday.
Full provisional results are in from Rwanda´s presidential election showing that President Paul Kagame got 93 percent of the vote.
A U.S. judge has denied bail for a Mexican official accused of sharing confidential U.S. law enforcement information with a Tijuana drug gang.
A woman who underwent a double mastectomy and later discovered she didn´t have breast cancer was set to receive $198,000 under a settlement approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Naomi Campbell could face charges for possessing ´illegal´ uncut diamonds which she later handed over to the head of one of former South African leader Nelson Mandela´s charities, police in South Africa say.
President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to prepare amendments to a law on government purchases after regional authorities bought CT scanners for as much as four times their factory price.
A move by President Barack Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba would allow the administration to change U.S. policy toward the island even if legislation to repeal a wider travel ban isn´t approved by Congress this year.
A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $125 million cash settlement for shareholders of bankrupt New Century Financial Corp., one of the largest lenders to collapse during the subprime mortgage meltdown.
BP PLC today named two lawyers to serve as trustees of the planned $20 billion fund for oil spill victims, on the same day the company announced an initial payment to the fund.
South African journalists have launched a campaign against proposed legislation which they say would curtail press freedom and threaten democracy.
Emerging from one of the most dismal law firm recruiting seasons in years, law schools are preparing for what early signs indicate will be an improved job market for their students.
A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer was found guilty of selling classified information to China, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
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