A court in central China's Hubei Province on Wednesday sentenced Zhou Bin, son of Zhou Yongkang, to 18 years in prison for taking bribes and illegal business operations.
Top UN officials on Thursday welcomed a guilty verdict handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, calling the judgement is "historic" for the people of the region and beyond.
Indonesians were shocked upon the acquittal of compensation of a firm identified of having committed forest fire in South Sumatra.
The Malaysian government rejected a call by a United Nations group on Monday to free Anwar Ibrahim, a former opposition leader who was jailed for sodomy, saying the verdict was made by an independent judiciary system.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal convicted two aging former top leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea, also known as Khmer Rouge, of atrocity crimes against humanity and sentenced them to life in prison, according to a verdict pronounced by the tribunal's president Nil Nonn on Thursday.
Canada on Monday voiced disappointment with the guilty verdict of Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy on terrorism-related charges, raising concerns that the judicial process that led to his verdict was inconsistent with Egypt's democratic aspirations.
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