World news about “Trial” published by euronews.
Ruby testifies on Berlusconi’s ‘Bunga Bunga’ parties She is the Moroccan woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. In court, Karima el-Mahroug testified… 17/05/2013
Germany: Neo-Nazi trial resumes as lawyers battle over technical details The trial of alleged neo-Nazi ring leader Beate Zschaepe has resumed in Munich. The process began again after accusations of bias where dismissed, but further… 14/05/2013
Mubarak back in court for retrial Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been back in court for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters. Although convicted and… 12/05/2013
Former Egyptian president in court for retrial Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has once again appeared in court in Cairo. He is facing a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters… 11/05/2013
Guatemala court finds former dictator guilty of genocide Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. He’s been sentenced to 80 years in prison. Rios… 11/05/2013
Accused Cleveland kidnapper appears in court and bailed for $8m The man accused of imprisoning three women in Cleveland, Ohio, has had his bail set at eight million US dollars – more than six million euros. Ariel… 09/05/2013
More legal woes for Berlusconi as prosecutors demand bribery trial Silvio Berlusconi’s legal woes show no sign of subsiding, a day after his conviction for tax fraud was upheld. Prosecutors in Naples have called for Italy’s… 09/05/2013
Latest legal blow for Berlusconi again threatens political career Silvio Berlusconi is expected to appeal against his conviction for tax fraud before Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation. On Wednesday an appeals… 09/05/2013
Italy: Berlusconi tax fraud conviction upheld An appeals court in Milan has upheld the tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The… 09/05/2013
Berlusconi Tax-Fraud Conviction Upheld An appeals court in Milan has upheld the tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence against Silvio Berlusconi . The case involving his television… 08/05/2013
Neo-Nazi murder trial – nocomment The highest-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened on Monday amid tight security and intense media interest, with the five defendants… 07/05/2013
Neo-Nazi murder trial delayed in Germany A German court has delayed the trial of a suspected surviving member of a neo-Nazi cell after the chief judge was accused of bias. Beate Zschaepe is… 07/05/2013
Suspected neo-Nazi goes on trial over string of racist murders A woman accused of being a neo-Nazi has gone on trial in Munich over a series of racist murders that exposed serious failings in Germany’s security… 06/05/2013
Will the real role of Beate Zschaepe ever be known? For many in Germany, this case has reopened an uncomfortable debate about whether the country must do more to tackle the far-right and lingering racist… 06/05/2013
Neo-Nazi murder trial begins in Germany An alleged member of a German extreme-right wing group has gone on trial in Munich today over her links with a series of racially motivated murders. The… 06/05/2013
Bhutto assassination prosecutor gunned down in Islamabad A leading Pakistani prosecutor has been shot dead in Islamabad. Chaudhry Zulfikar, who was investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir… 03/05/2013
Conman jailed in fake bomb detector scandal Millionaire businessman James McCormick has been sentenced to ten years in jail in Britain for selling fake bomb detectors to countries including Iraq… 02/05/2013
Promoters’ ‘pressure’ on Jackson contributed to singer’s death, claim family Members of the Jackson family are in a LA court as a lawsuit into the death of the ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson continues. Katerine Jackson, the singers… 30/04/2013
Russian court rejects Navalny’s request to drop charges A Russian court in Kirov has refused a request to drop graft and theft charges against leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The anti-corruption campaigner… 25/04/2013
Fraud trial resumes for Russian opposition leader Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny has returned to the dock in Kirov to answer new fraud charges. Navalny, who is one of the country’s most vocal… 24/04/2013
China: Wife of jailed Nobel laureate says brothers trial is harassment The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has appeared in public to attend the trial of her brother accused of fraud. Liu Xia has been… 23/04/2013
Pakistan’s ex-president in custody for two weeks Pakistan’s former leader, Pervez Musharraf, has been remanded in custody for two weeks over allegations of a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in… 20/04/2013
Judge in Guatemala halts Montt genocide trial A judge in Guatemala has suspended the genocide trial of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt. The 86-year-old was being tried for a counter-insurgency… 19/04/2013
Mubarak goes straight to prison Ex Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak has been sent back to prison in Cairo after making a court appearance in much improved health, waving and smiling. The 84… 17/04/2013
Former PIP boss goes on trial over faulty breast implant A trial has begun in the southern French city of Marseille for the former head of the company behind the global health scare which saw hundreds of thousands… 17/04/2013
Navalny trial adjourned in Russia Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has accused the Russian authorities of laying trumped up charges of embezzlement against him at the start of his… 17/04/2013
Costa Concordia indictment hearings open In Italy what are expected to be a long series of indictment hearings into the sinking of the Costa Concordia against six suspects – including the captain… 15/04/2013
Outside the Mubarak trial, Egypt’s divisions are clear Outside the Cairo court anger and despair was on show from the relatives of victims of violence during the 2011 revolution when they heard the trial of Hosni… 13/04/2013
Judge withdraws from Mubarak retrial The presiding judge in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has withdrawn from the case and referred it to another court. This means that… 13/04/2013
German court rules foreign reporters must attend NSU trial Germany’s Constitutional Court has upheld an appeal by the Turkish newspaper Sabah to ensure a court in Munich reserves a certain number of places for foreign… 12/04/2013
Paris judge to rule on Hopi Indian masks auction A French judge is due to rule on Friday on whether an auction of American Indian masks can go ahead in Paris amid claims by the tribe that they were… 12/04/2013
UK’s blunt debate on cannabis continuesWhilst the UK’s Home Secretary, Theresa May, has committed to a ‘what works’ review of different European drug policies, she can call on recently released… 10/04/2013
Ukrainian court keeps Tymoshenko ally in jail Yuri Lutsenko Ukraine’s former interior minister has had his appeal against a prison sentence rejected. Like his once close ally the jailed ex-prime… 03/04/2013
Colorado prosecutor demands death penalty for cinema shooter Prosecutors in the Aurora Cinema shooting trial have called for the death penalty for accused gunman James Holmes. He is to go on trial for the shooting of… 02/04/2013
Russian trial of dead lawyer Magnitsky continues Proceedings resumed on April 1 in the Moscow trial of Russian anti-corruption lawyer Sergey Magnitsky – who died in prison in 2009. Magnitsky is accused by… 01/04/2013
Pakistan’s Musharraf granted bail to run in election Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has won a legal victory in a Karachi court which means he cannot be immediately arrested on charges of conspiracy… 29/03/2013
Sarkozy case: judge receives death threats French authorities are investigating death threats made against Jean Michel Gentil, a judge who put former president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal… 28/03/2013
Oscar Pistorius granted right to travelSouth African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has won a challenge to his bail conditions, allowing him the right to travel abroad. A judge… 28/03/2013
Senior Bosnian Serb officials jailed for war crimes Two men who were high-ranking members of the Bosnian Serb authorities have been jailed for 22 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the… 27/03/2013
Knox to be tried again on same Italian murder charge American Amanda Knox is facing calls from the Italian justice system to be tried again for murder – her and Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito… 26/03/2013
‘The Terminator’ proclaims innocence at first ICC hearing Bosco Ntaganda, a Rwandan-born warlord nick-named “the Terminator”, said he is innocent of the charges brought against him at the International Criminal Court… 26/03/2013
France in bitter row over claims against Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy was at times controversial in office, out of office he has caused a political and legal brawl in France. Supporters of the former president… 23/03/2013
Anti-Sarkozy insult was ‘satirical’ – European Court finds France guilty of human rights violationA man who was fined for displaying an ‘abusive’ sign to former president Nicolas Sarkozy was today cleared of his conviction as the European Court of Human… 14/03/2013
UK ex-minister jailed for perverting justiceChris Huhne, the former British Energy Secretary and one of the Liberal Democrat party’s most senior figures has been sentenced to eight months in prison for… 11/03/2013
India gang rape accused ‘hangs himself’, family suspects foul play The driver of the bus in which a young Indian woman was gang-raped and fatally injured three months ago has been found dead in his prison cell in New… 11/03/2013
Berlusconi handed one year jail sentence in wiretapping scandal Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail over illegal wiretapping. The prosecution claimed Berlusconi arranged… 07/03/2013
Pistorius begins life on bail at uncle’s Pretoria mansion Champion paralympian Oscar Pistorius has begun his life on bail, staying at his uncle’s house in Pretoria, South Africa. The track star is due to face… 23/02/2013
Pistorius family cheers as paralympic star set free on bail The prayers of Oscar Pistorius’ family appear to have been heard as a South African court released him on bail. The Olympic and Paralympic star was unmoved… 22/02/2013
Oscar Pistorius granted bail by South African court Oscar Pistorius was granted bail by a South African court on Friday after his lawyers successfully argued he was not a flight risk. The man known worldwide as… 22/02/2013
Balloons to remember – nocomment Colourful balloons brighten the sky of Dhaka as protesters remember those who died fighting for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan. 21/02/2013
Judge says Pistorius should face charge of ‘premeditated murder’, bail unlikely Details of the killing of Reeva Steenkamp have energed from the ongoing bail hearing of Oscar Pistorius in Johannesburg. The paralympic running star is… 19/02/2013
Jaksche gives damning testimony in Puerto case As the Operación Puerto trial in Madrid went into its third week on Monday former Pro tour cyclist Jorg Jaksche testified against disgraced Spanish doctor… 12/02/2013
Trial begins for Olympic bottle-throwing fan The man that threw a bottle onto the track during the 100 metres final at the Olympic Games this summer appeared at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on… 03/01/2013
Chad-France orphan fraud case opens Aid workers from the French charity Zoe’s Ark have gone on trial in Paris, accused of fraud. They were arrested in Chad, central Africa, in October 2007, in… 03/12/2012
Ex-UBS trader swaps sales for cells A former trader at the bank UBS in London has been jailed for seven years for the biggest fraud in British history. Kweku Adeboli lost his employers 1.8… 20/11/2012
Prestige infamy relived The Prestige was just another anonymous ship decaying on the high seas until one final storm found it in the world’s headlines. The Liberian single hull… 16/10/2012
Cambodian woman devotes life to healing war scars Euronews went to Battambang province to meet Davy Tith. This former teacher and translator has devoted most of her life to the victims of Pol Pot’s… 10/10/2012
Vatican: Small state, big debateThe Pope Benedict’s former butler Paolo Gabriele, accused of stealing and leaking the pontiff’s personal papers, was sentenced to 18 months in detention by a… 06/10/2012
Pope’s butler followed conscience The ex-papal-butler Paolo Gabriele, accused of stealing and leaking copies of Vatican documents, for six years dressed his employer around dawn and was the… 05/10/2012
Former Khmer Rouge soldier faces up to past Welcome to Kampong Thom, cradle of Pol Pot, the infamous Khmer Rouge leader. We are here to meet Chin Meth, on her journey through history. Enrolled by… 03/10/2012
Vatileaks trial media focus – nocomment The world’s media gathers in front of the St. Peter’s Basilica for the trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler. 29/09/2012
Boat Race saboteur guilty of public nuisanceThe protester who disrupted the University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge earlier this year was found guilty of causing a public nuisance on… 27/09/2012
Erika, the globalised tanker disaster The Erika oil tanker disaster had globalisation written all over it. The ship was registered in Malta. It had been certified as seaworthy by the Italian… 25/09/2012
Former Olympus executives plead guilty in fraud trial Three former top bosses of Japanese camera and medical equipment maker Olympus have admitted involvement in one of Japan’s biggest corporate scandals. The… 25/09/2012
Rowing nuisance in court Trenton Oldfield who disrupted 158th University Boat Race is in court charged with causing a public nuisance. On April 7 the 36-year-old Australian caused… 24/09/2012
Turkish government’s power trial of military It may the most important trial in Turkey’s recent history: hundreds of active and retired military officers accused in a civil court of plotting to overthrow… 21/09/2012
Timeline of Breivik’s deadly Norway attacks - On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik sets off almost a thousand kilos of explosive fertiliser outside the government offices in Oslo. - This kills eight… 24/08/2012
Beijing wants Bo Xilai fallout ‘minimised’ It took less than two weeks to try, convict and sentence Gu Kailai. That shows how seriously the case has been viewed by the Chinese ruling Communist… 20/08/2012
Catch me if you can!A policeman chases a supporter of the female punk band “Pussy Riot” jailed members while climbing on a fence enclosing the Turkish embassy near a court… 18/08/2012
‘Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away’ – a punk prayer earns two years in jailWhat follows is a translation of the song ‘Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away’ sung by Pussy Riot in Moscow’s main Cathedral in March Virgin Mary, Mother of God… 17/08/2012
Gu to hear her fate after not contesting murder charge The woman at the centre of China’s most sensational trial in decades, Gu Kailai, has not contested charges of murder, in a court hearing that lasted just a… 09/08/2012
Moscow: Pussy Riot supporters protest near courthouse – nocomment Pussy Riot supporters protested against the girls’ imprisonment outside the courthouse where the trial is held. 05/08/2012
What’s all the fuss over people who get arrested?The reaction of some people when they hear that the European Commission is pushing for new EU-wide rules on suspects’ rights goes something like this: but … 11/06/2012
Spotlight on suspects’ rights The rights of people arrested on suspicion of committing a crime are under the spotlight in Europe. Action is being taken to make sure that the rules are the… 11/06/2012
Angry pro-democracy protesters return to Tahrir Square Thousands of Egyptians continue to protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square claiming their revolution has been hijacked by allies of the ousted leader Hosni… 06/06/2012
Cairo: Reaction to Mubarak trial verdict – nocomment Outside the court where Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison, anti-Mubarak Egyptians noisily celebrated the verdict. Pro-Mubarak demonstrator also… 02/06/2012
Protests at Egyptian police trial – nocomment Egyptian soldiers and military police beat and detained several protesters outside a courtroom in Alexandria where security officials are on trial for… 21/03/2012
Street clashes erupt in Ankara after controversial court ruling – nocomment Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds protesting after a court dropped a case against five people charged with killing 37… 14/03/2012
Turkey match-fixing trial begins The trial for a match-fixing scandal that has plunged Turkey’s multi-billion-euro league into chaos began on Tuesday in Silivri near Istanbul. Outside the… 14/02/2012
Asbestos victims’ breakthrough ‘Asbestos poisoners must be judged.’ This was the demand by contamination victims and their loved ones in Paris at a demonstration in 2005. First formal… 13/02/2012
Long-awaited Eternit asbestos verdict expected soon Will the judgement be guilty or not guilty in the ‘asbestos trial’ of the owners of the company Eternit, in Casale Monferrato, Italy? After a two-year… 10/02/2012
Fraud ruling upheld against Church of Scientology A French court has upheld a ruling against the Church of Scientology for cajoling members into spending large amounts of money for questionable remedies… 02/02/2012
Spanish judge who charged Pinochet appears in court – nocomment Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon who won fame with his attempt to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1990s appeared in court in Madrid on… 18/01/2012
BP chases Halliburton for billions over oil spill BP says it wants contractor Halliburton to pay all the clean up costs and expenses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill — that is around 32 billion… 03/01/2012
China gets tough with football fixers The trial has begun in China of a former national football official and a club officer accused of taking bribes and match-fixing. A former director of the… 20/12/2011
Tymoshenko lawyer struggles to get to court The lawyer of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko climbs over a fence separating security forces and Tymoshenko supporters, to attend his… 14/12/2011
Vinokourov hits back Kazkahstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov is taking legal action against Swiss magazine L’Illustré over a report he bribed his Russian opponent Aleksandr Kolobnev in… 07/12/2011
Cherkesov found guilty A Moscow city court jury has found Aslan Cherkesov guilty of the premeditated murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club Spartak. Sviridov was… 25/10/2011
Ukraine’s president defends Tymoshenko trial Ukraine’s ambitions to join the EU were expected to take a big step forward this week during a visit by President Viktor Yanukovic to Brussels. But… 20/10/2011
Alleged UBS rogue trader in court UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, who is accused of unauthorised trading which the Swiss bank says cost it 1.7 billion euros has appeared in court again. The… 20/10/2011
UEFA quizzed by Swiss court UEFA president Michel Platini was questioned by a Swiss court on Wednesday about why European football’s governing body has not yet implemented a ruling… 19/10/2011
EU steps up pressure on Kiev over Tymoshenko The EU is stepping up the pressure on Kiev to free Yulia Tymoshenko ahead of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s planned visit to Brussels this week… 17/10/2011
Topless Tymoshenko supporters rally outside court – nocomment Hundreds of supporters of Tymoshenko gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Kiev on Tuesday. 12/10/2011
EU feels let down by Ukraine over Tymoshenko The EU has expressed disappointment at the Tymoshenko verdict. A statement from the foreign policy office said justice was being applied selectively in… 11/10/2011
Rough waters ahead in EU-Ukraine relations The sentence in the Tymoshenko case has shocked Ukraine and surprised many people around the world. Just after the sentence was passed, euronews witnessed the… 11/10/2011
Tymoshenko’s ordeal Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko, convicted of abuse of office in resolving a gas dispute, has had her share of accusations of shady dealing on the path from… 11/10/2011
Italy: Amanda Knox acquitted of murder – nocomment An Italian appeal court has cleared Amanda Knox of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia four years ago. 04/10/2011
Kercher murder verdict background The scene of the crime of 1 November 2007 — the house where Meredith Kercher was killed, in Perugia, central Italy — was the focal point of police activity… 03/10/2011
Conrad Murray trial begins – nocomment California prosecutors played a recording of Michael Jackson’s voice just weeks before his death at the start of the trial of the doctor accused of killing… 28/09/2011
Corruption allegations swirl around Sarkozy The repercussions of a bombing in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2002 continue to be felt in France. Eleven French engineers died in the attack, which it is… 23/09/2011
