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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News that President Obama and former President George W. Bush could have “conceivably been put in jail” for using drugs. Tweet This Post
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Elizabeth Warren Wants HSBC Bankers Jailed for Money Laundering
Posted by admin on March 8th, 2013
Elizabeth Warren has a question: How much money does a bank have to launder before people go to jail? Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts and financial-regulatory maven, posed that question numerous times to financial regulators at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday on banks… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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No Comments »Turkey agrees Kurdish delegation to meet jailed militant leader
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2013
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish government approved on Thursday a list of pro-Kurdish politicians to visit jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, a justice ministry official said, a long-awaited step to advance peace talks on ending a 28-year-old insurgency. Turkey launched tentative negotiations with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Ocalan in his jail on Imrali island [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Agrees, delegation, jailed, Kurdish, leader, Meet, militant, Turkey No Comments »U.S. lawmakers in Cuba to see Raul Castro, jailed contractor Gross
Posted by admin on February 18th, 2013
HAVANA (Reuters) – A seven-member delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Cuba on Monday in the latest effort to move forward political relations that have been at a standstill since U.S. government contractor Alan Gross was imprisoned there in 2009. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who saw Gross and met with Cuban President Raul Castro and [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Castro, Contractor, Cuba, Gross, jailed, lawmakers, Raúl, U.S. No Comments »Putin trying to scare off protesters: jailed tycoon
Posted by admin on February 6th, 2013
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is increasingly trying to intimidate ordinary Russians into abandoning protests against him to keep his grip on power, jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said. In replies to written questions by Reuters, dictated to lawyers during prison visits, Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, accused Putin of resorting to political [...]
Jailed Pussy Riot member suffering headaches, fatigue: bandmate
Posted by admin on February 1st, 2013
MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of the jailed members of Russian punk protest collective Pussy Riot has been moved to a prison with a hospital after suffering headaches and fatigue, her bandmate said in remarks broadcast on Friday. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, was one of three women sentenced to two years in prison for a "punk prayer" [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: bandmate, fatigue, headaches, jailed, Member, Pussy, Riot, Suffering No Comments »China court rejects damages plea from man jailed for Bo joke
Posted by admin on January 31st, 2013
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese man sent to a labor camp for a joke about Bo Xilai said he was awarded minimal compensation by a court on Thursday, in what could be a blow to others jailed by the disgraced leader’s administration and hoping for substantial damages. Fang Hong, 46, was sentenced to a year [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: China, Court, damages, From, jailed, joke, Plea, rejects No Comments »Jailed Kurdish rebel chief demands Paris murders solved soon
Posted by admin on January 15th, 2013
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on French police to solve the murders of three Kurdish activists quickly, his brother said, but he gave no indication their killing would disrupt nascent peace talks between him and Turkish officials. The three Kurdish women, one a co-founder of Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) [...]
Ex-U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico wins back his freedom
Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2012
MIAMI (Reuters) – A former U.S. Marine jailed in a notoriously violent part of northern Mexico was released on Friday after being held prisoner four months for possessing a shotgun that was a family heirloom, according to a member of the U.S. Congress. After speaking with the family of Jon Hammar, U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [...]
Jailed adviser of Iran leader given medical leave
Posted by admin on December 20th, 2012
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian newspaper says prison authorities have allowed the former press adviser of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to leave jail for medical treatment. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
