The Tunisian authorities must immediately release a well known government critic, journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Amnesty International has made a renewed call for the humane treatment of all detainees, following reports that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may be released in a prisoner exchange.

THE corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been delayed until next Tuesday to allow State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele 's advocate to get further instructions.

New evidence has emerged showing that both local and foreign lawyers probably did not want the Chiluba corruption case to die because they were making a killing.

Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008.

A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month.

The Federal Government is proposing to buy four more aircraft for the presidential fleet, according to the 2010 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

More than 300 former combatants in Darfur, including women and disabled persons, have participated in a three-day discharge programme organized by the Government of Sudan with support from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur.

A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday.

Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences.

A BUSINESS trip to Namibia went badly wrong for an Israeli woman involved in the diamond industry last week, when she found herself being arrested, charged and finally fined N$50 000 for having brought diamonds into Namibia without a licence.

The Gacaca court of Ngoma recently sentenced in absentia a former vice Rector of the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to life imprisonment with special provisions for his role in the 1994 Genocide at the university, in which over 400

The awareness of the proposed Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 by Ugandans has declined since last year by 11 percent, a new poll has revealed.

An Abuja High Court yesterday freed the National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and two others of charges of N7.740 billion fraud brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Supreme Court will on February 19, 2010 deliver judgement on the appeal brought before it by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against a ruling of the Court of Appeal, Jos which

A Lagos High Court yesterday sentenced a former Director in the Oyo State Civil Service Mrs. Helen Banke Laoye to 20 years imprisonment on a two count charge of fraud levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Senior state counsel, Nebo Jones of the attorney general chambers has urged the special criminal court, pressided over by justice Moses Richards not to grant bail to the 28 accused persons standing criminal trial at the Brikama magistrates court on

Three suspected persons were last Friday, November 20, 2009 arrigned before justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul on two counts of conspiracy to commit felony and robbery contrary to section 368 and 272 respectively.

The deputy director of public prosecution, DDPP Mikailu Abdulahi yesterday, told the special criminal court that the state intends to close the prosecution case in the matter involving one Morris F Kallon who is standing trial on rape charge.

Justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul last Friday cautioned the father of an allged rape suspect to warn his son's lawyer to come to court and do his job.