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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2015
'Accountant of Auschwitz,' 94, guilty of abetting deaths of 300,000 Jews, gets four years
A 94-year-old man who was once a Waffen SS volunteer at Auschwitz was convicted for aiding in the murder of more than 300,000 Jews at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 2, 2015
Reputed mobster 'Big Tony' convicted in businessman's '01 murder amid gambling ship feud
Reputed U.S. mobster Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2001 slaying of a prominent Florida businessman during a power struggle over a lucrative fleet of gambling ships.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 26, 2015
Tehran trial of Iranian-American journalist on unspecified charges to be closed, brother says
The trial in Iran of jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will be closed to the public when it starts on Tuesday, his brother said on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 14, 2015
Ex-Aum cult member Kikuchi pleads not guilty at appeal trial
Former Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi pleaded not guilty on Wednesday at the Tokyo High Court in an appeal session on a five-year prison sentence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2015
Man recalls 'terrifying' carjacking at Boston bombing trial
A man carjacked by the accused Boston Marathon bombers shortly after prosecutors say they shot and killed a policeman on Thursday recalled the moment when one of the brothers jumped into his Mercedes and told him he was one of the bombers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 11, 2015
Jury in Boston Marathon bomb trial sees bloodstained note
Jurors in the trial on Tuesday of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got to see the bloodstained message that prosecutors say he wrote on the inside of a boat he was hiding in before his violent capture, explaining his reasoning for killing innocent people.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2015
Egypt sets Feb. 12 retrial date for jailed Al-Jazeera journalists
The retrial of two Al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt will start on Feb. 12, the lawyer for one of the defendants said on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2015
Aum accused pleads not guilty to most charges on first day of trial
Former Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Katsuya Takahashi pleads not guilty to murder and other charges on the first day of his trial at the Tokyo District Court.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2014
Boston bomb suspect cites Islamic State comparisons in bid to move trial
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is making a last-ditch bid to move his terrorism trial to another city, arguing that local news media are turning potential jurors against him with stories comparing him to Islamic State militants.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 12, 2014
Ebola vaccine trial halted temporarily after joint pains, Geneva hospital says
A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck and NewLink has been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure after four patients complained of joint pains, the University of Geneva Hospital said on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 26, 2014
China tries seven students of jailed Uighur scholar on separatism charges
China put seven students of imprisoned Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti on trial on separatism charges for their involvement in his website, which the nation's government says promotes disunity.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 12, 2014
Relatives, victims of Aum attacks to join trial of cult's former member
Family of victims in a series of violent crimes carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo cult will take part in the trial of former member Katsuya Takahashi, which is scheduled to start Jan. 16 at the Tokyo District Court, the victims' relatives said Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2014
Lebanese defendant admits joining Islamic State, buying supplies in Germany
A Lebanese man admitted joining Islamic State in Syria and later returning to his home country Germany to buy military and medical supplies for the group, at the opening of his trial in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 24, 2014
Russian captured in Afghanistan to face terrorism charges in U.S.
A Russian captured while fighting with militants in Afghanistan, and held by the U.S. military there, will be flown to the United States to face terrorism charges, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The detainee was identified by the Washington Post as Irek Hamidullan. He was captured in 2009 and has been held at a detention facility at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. The officials said Hamidullan would be transferred to the United States for trial on unspecified terrorism charges. It would mark the first time a foreign combatant captured in Afghanistan would be brought to the United States for trial. President Barack Obama would like some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States for trial, but that option has been blocked by Congress. Hamidullan is suspected of involvement in attacks in which Americans were wounded or killed in 2009. He is believed to be among 13 foreign nationals at the Parwan detention facility at Bagram.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2014
Accused admits to killing, pleads not guilty, in Canada dismemberment trial
A Canadian man accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student in Montreal in 2012 admitted on Monday to committing the acts he is accused of, but his lawyer said he is schizophrenic and therefore not criminally responsible.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 22, 2014
Man, 22, pleads guilty to girlfriend's murder
A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing his former girlfriend to death last October in a high-profile stalking-murder case in Mitaka, west Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2014
Defense in Guam rampage trial urges jury not be swayed by emotion
The defense in the trial of a Guam man accused of killing three Japanese tourists and wounding 11 other people in a rampage last year urges the jury to make their decision based on the evidence and not their emotions.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 10, 2014
Defense in Guam rampage trial rests, asserting suspect's insanity
The defense for a 22-year-old local man on trial in Guam for the deaths of three Japanese tourists and the wounding of 11 people in February of last year rested its case Wednesday by asserting that he is insane, using testimony by psychiatric experts.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 19, 2014
Teen denies intent to kill in Tokyo robbery-slaying
An 18-year-old Romanian indicted for the murder and robbery of a woman in Tokyo last year said Wednesday as his trial opened that he had no intention of killing his victim.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2014
Aum cultist Hirata reiterates plea of ignorance
Aum Shinrikyo ex-fugitive Makoto Hirata repeated Monday that he had no prior knowledge about the cult's 1995 plans to kidnap and confine Tokyo notary Kiyoshi Kariya as he testified for the first time in his ongoing trial.

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