Investigators seek case-reading time limit for Navalny brothersBasmanny District Court of Moscow next week will review the motion filed by the investigators seeking to shorten the time in which opposition stalwart and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny can review his case materials, the court told RAPSI on Friday.15:34 07.03.2014
Abu Hamza trial set to last 6 weeks amid apparent rift in defense strategyProsecutors filed documents Wednesday projecting that the US terrorism trial against Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, better known as Abu Hamza, would last approximately six weeks as a recently published letter to the judge handwritten by the defendant himself exposes a potential rift in the defense strategy.15:01 06.03.2014
Witness identified Politkovskaya murder suspect as the killerOne of witnesses in the Politkovskaya murder trial identified the accused Rustam Makhmudov as the killer during his testimony, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.17:04 05.03.2014
Russian opposition activist Razvozzhayev to remain in detentionThe Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld the detention of activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, who faces charges of organizing riots in May 2012 along with Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov, attorney Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI.14:39 04.03.2014
Russian student found with explosives to remain in detention pending US trialRussian national Vladislav Miftakhov, a university student allegedly found with explosives in January, will be detained under US Marshal custody pending his upcoming trial, according to court documents filed Friday.17:34 03.03.2014
Defense team seeks to control government, not Tsarnaev – prosecutorsArguing that special restrictions should remain in place against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, US prosecutors emphasized a detrimental remark that the defendant allegedly made during a visit with his sister in the presence of an FBI officer.14:29 03.03.2014
Russian government rejects ECHR concerns over Bolotnaya caseThe Russian Government has sent a memorandum to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg to answer the claims of three defendants in the Bolotnaya case, attorney Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI.16:56 26.02.2014
Costa Concordia captain to board the recovered ship on February 27The prosecutor’s office in Grosseto, Italy where a court is hearing the case of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground two years ago, has allowed former Captain Francesco Schettino to take part in a survey of the shipwreck, the Italian media wrote on Tuesday.11:13 26.02.2014
Sentences brought to the eight convicted of 2012 Moscow riotsMoscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Monday sentenced eight activists to prison terms of three to four years in prison for participation in Moscow's 2012 Bolotnaya riots, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.13:57 24.02.2014
Civil court to handle treason case against ex-president of PakistanA special civil court in Islamabad presiding over the treason case against former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has rejected the defense team's request to transfer the case to a military court, Pakistani newspaper DAWN reports.16:44 21.02.2014
Tsarnaev defense team complains of FBI monitoring, prison screeningsComplaining of “FBI monitoring” and efforts by prison staff to screen certain defense materials, attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has urged the US federal court adjudicating his case to vacate all special restrictions imposed against their client in a heavily redacted motion filed Thursday.13:13 21.02.2014
US defense for Russian student Miftakhov says he only wanted to blow up dirtThrough his court-appointed defense attorney, 18-year-old Russian student Vladislav Miftakhov filed documents Tuesday urging the US federal court adjudicating his case to allow his release pending the upcoming criminal proceedings against him.13:32 19.02.2014
Russian opposition activists plead not guilty to organizing 2012 Moscow riotsLeft Front leader Sergei Udaltsov and activist Leonid Razvozzhayev, who face charges of organizing riots in May 2012, pleaded not guilty in the Moscow City Court, RAPSI reported from the courtroom on Tuesday.15:47 18.02.2014
Politkovskaya was threatened repeatedly before murder – witnessNovaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov on Thursday said in the Moscow City Court that journalist Anna Politkovskaya had received threats on several occasions prior to her murder, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.15:37 13.02.2014
November 2014 trial set for Boston Marathon bombing suspect TsarnaevA jury trial is set to commence in the US case against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on November 3 of this year, according to a note appended to the defendant’s docket Wednesday.11:40 13.02.2014
Judge refuses to recuse himself from Politkovskaya murder caseJudge Pavel Melekhin on Tuesday refused to recuse himself from the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, RAPSI reports from Moscow City Court.17:07 11.02.2014
Boston Bombing suspect Tsarnaev moves for trial date no earlier than Sep. 2015Following the recent decision by US prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defense team has moved for the trial to start no earlier than September 2015, according to a status report filed jointly by the defense and prosecution Monday.12:13 11.02.2014
Aeroflot prepares for March trial against California travel agencyA joint witness list filed Friday sheds insight into the upcoming US legal battle between Russian airline Aeroflot and California travel agency Riviera Travel & Tours, Inc. in a dispute stemming from allegations of improper ticket sales by the agency.16:49 10.02.2014
Accused in Politkovskaya murder trial denies his presence at the sceneOne of the accused in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, Dzhabrail Makhmudov, stated during the hearings that he was not anywhere near the slain journalist's house the day of the killing, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.16:44 07.02.2014
Libyan court to consider case against two Russians on Feb. 10The first hearing in a civil court case against Russian nationals Alexander Shadrov and Vladimir Dolgov - who were detained in Libya in 2011 - has been scheduled for February 10, Leonid Frolov, a senior adviser for the Russian Embassy in Tripoli, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.16:23 05.02.2014