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Turkish Lawyers March For Slain Colleague - Diyarbakir

People carry a banner with Tahir Elci's photo in the front row as hundreds march behind on the 10th anniversary of the lawyer's killing in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on November 28, 2025. Tahir Elci, then-president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, was shot dead in front of the Four-Legged Minaret in Sur district on November 28, 2015. Photo by Bilal Seckin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Turkish Lawyers March For Slain Colleague - Diyarbakir

People hold placards with Tahir Elci's photos as people march on the 10th anniversary of the lawyer's killing near the Four-Legged Minaret in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on November 28, 2025. Tahir Elci, then-president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, was shot dead in front of the Four-Legged Minaret in Sur district on November 28, 2015. Photo by Bilal Seckin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Turkish Lawyers March For Slain Colleague - Diyarbakir

People carry a banner with Tahir Elci's photo in the front row as hundreds march behind on the 10th anniversary of the lawyer's killing in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on November 28, 2025. Tahir Elci, then-president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, was shot dead in front of the Four-Legged Minaret in Sur district on November 28, 2015. Photo by Bilal Seckin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Turkish Lawyers March For Slain Colleague - Diyarbakir

People carry a banner with Tahir Elci's photo in the front row as hundreds march behind on the 10th anniversary of the lawyer's killing in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on November 28, 2025. Tahir Elci, then-president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, was shot dead in front of the Four-Legged Minaret in Sur district on November 28, 2015. Photo by Bilal Seckin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Second day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers during Joel Le Scouarnec trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients at the Criminal Court in Vannes, western France, on February 25, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Second day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers during Joel Le Scouarnec trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients at the Criminal Court in Vannes, western France, on February 25, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Second day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

French plaintiffs lawyer Marie Grimaud and lawyers takes a break during Joel Le Scouarnec trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients at the Criminal Court in Vannes, western France, on February 25, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Second day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

French plaintiffs lawyer Marie Grimaud and lawyers takes a break during Joel Le Scouarnec trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients at the Criminal Court in Vannes, western France, on February 25, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Second day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers during Joel Le Scouarnec trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients at the Criminal Court in Vannes, western France, on February 25, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers outside the courtroom during a break at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers wait in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers arrives at the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers waits in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers waits in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers waits in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers waits in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers wait in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers wait in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening day of Le Scouarnec Trial - Vannes RL

Lawyers waits in the Criminal Court, on the opening day of his four-month trial on charges of assaulting or raping 299 patients in Vannes, on February 24, 2025. Scouarnec, 74, faces a new four-month trial, charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time. He is already in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his nieces. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Peter Nygard Requests Bail Pending Appeal - Canada

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard asks an Ontario court to review the decision to deny him bail as he appeals his convictions and sentence for sexual assault, on November 5, 2024. Nygard was convicted of four counts of sexual assault last year after several women came forward with allegations dating from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but the trial judge specified that he would have just under seven years left to serve once time already spent in custody was taken into account. His lawyers have raised several grounds for appeal, including that his sentence is “excessive” and that the trial judge made several errors, including admitting expert evidence on the effects of trauma. In photo : Peter Nygard arrives at a courthouse in Toronto on October 3, 2023. Photo by Burston Cole/Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Woman on death row seeks retrial over 1998 curry poisoning

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Lawyers and supporters of Masumi Hayashi, whose death sentence was finalized in May for a 1998 curry poisoning that killed four people in Wakayama, arrive at the Wakayama District Court on July 22 to file an appeal for a retrial.

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High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remarks

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto answers questions from reporters in Osaka on July 2 after the Hiroshima High Court more than halved to 3.6 million yen the compensation owed by Hashimoto to four lawyers over remarks he made in 2007 about their tactics in defending a man convicted of murder.

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Osaka Gov. Hashimoto ordered to pay damages for TV comment

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto (L) speaks to reporters at the Osaka prefectural government building in Osaka on Oct. 2 after the Hiroshima District Court ordered him to pay 8 million yen in damages to four lawyers for effectively calling for a campaign to seek their punishment for intentionally delaying the retrial of a man accused of killing a woman and her daughter in 1999 when he was a minor.

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Court upholds life sentence for ex-nurse over clinic murder

SENDAI, Japan - The Sendai High Court on March 22 upheld a life sentence for a former male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others at a clinic in Sendai in 2000 by intravenously injecting them with a muscle relaxant. Photo shows defense lawyers and supporters protesting against the decision. Mori and his four lawyers were ordered to leave the courtroom as they repeatedly demanded they be allowed again to present their arguments.

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(2)Court awards damages to Chinese in wartime forced-labor case

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Plaintiffs, accompanied by their lawyers and supporters, walk into the Hiroshima High Court on July 9 to hear a ruling on their damages suit. The high court awarded damages in full by overturning a July 2002 lower court ruling that rejected the lawsuit brought by Shao Yicheng, 78, and four other plaintiffs four years earlier against Nishimatsu Construction Co., a construction firm based in Tokyo.

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(3)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tsutomu Kobayashi, chief lawyer for Masumi Hayashi, meets reporters in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama, western Japan, in 1998. He said the defense lawyers filed an appeal.

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4th court rules Oct. election vote gap in unconstitutional state

A Japanese court ruled Tuesday that the vote weight disparity in last October's lower house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" but stopped short of nullifying the outcome, becoming the fourth court to make such a decision. The ruling by the Akita branch of the Sendai High Court in northeastern Japan was the eighth to be handed down in a slew of lawsuits filed by groups of lawyers at 14 high courts and their branches nationwide over the 2.08-fold vote weight disparity in the Oct. 31 House of Representatives election. Among the seven high court rulings handed down by Monday, three ruled the results were "in a state of unconstitutionality" but stopped short of nullifying the outcome, while four dismissed the suits, saying the election was constitutional. All the high court rulings will be completed by March 9, after which the Supreme Court is expected to make a unified decision.

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Ex-pro boxer on death row seeks retrial

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Iwao Hakamada. Lawyers for the former pro boxer who has been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a four-member family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed an appeal for a retrial with the Supreme Court Sept. 1, 2004, after the Tokyo High Court rejected his plea for a retrial on Aug. 27. The date of the photo is unknown. (Kyodo)

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(3)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tsutomu Kobayashi, chief lawyer for Masumi Hayashi, meets reporters in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama, western Japan, in 1998. He said the defense lawyers filed an appeal.

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Sit-in protest by lawyers seeking retrial of death-row inmates

A group of Chinese lawyers continue their protest on May 27, 2015, the 17th day since it began, in front of the higher people's court in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, demanding the disclosure of documents in the trials of four men sentenced to death for the 2000 murders of two persons. The lawyers are appealing for a retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-in protest by lawyers seeking retrial of death-row inmates

A group of Chinese lawyers continue their protest on May 26, 2015, the 16th day since it began, in front of the higher people's court in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, demanding the disclosure of documents in the trials of four men sentenced to death for the 2000 murders of two persons. The lawyers are appealing for a retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remar

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto answers questions from reporters in Osaka on July 2 after the Hiroshima High Court more than halved to 3.6 million yen the compensation owed by Hashimoto to four lawyers over remarks he made in 2007 about their tactics in defending a man convicted of murder. (Kyodo)

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Court upholds life sentence for ex-nurse over clinic murder

SENDAI, Japan - The Sendai High Court on March 22 upheld a life sentence for a former male nurse convicted of killing a patient and attempting to kill four others at a clinic in Sendai in 2000 by intravenously injecting them with a muscle relaxant. Photo shows defense lawyers and supporters protesting against the decision. Mori and his four lawyers were ordered to leave the courtroom as they repeatedly demanded they be allowed again to present their arguments. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean lawyers visit Japan firm to demand forced labor damages

Lawyers representing four South Koreans, recently awarded damages by the country's top court for forced labor during colonial rule, visit Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic champ Icho allegedly harassed by wrestling director

Four-time Olympic wrestling champion Kaori Icho is pictured in a photo taken in Tokyo on May 18, 2017. Icho was allegedly subjected to repeated harassment by the Japan Wrestling Federation's development director Kazuhito Sakae since winning her second gold medal in Beijing in 2008, a lawyers' office said on March 1, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court rejects retrial appeal by ex-nurse over 2000 murder

Lawyers for Daisuke Mori, a former nurse who was sentenced to life for the murder of one patient and attempted murder of four others by giving them muscle relaxants in 2000, speak at a press conference in Sendai, northern Japan, on Feb. 28, 2018, after the Sendai High Court upheld a lower court decision that dismissed an appeal for retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese rights activist convicted of subversion, sentence suspended

Photo taken in March 2015 shows Zhai Yanmin, a Chinese civil rights activist arrested in a mass crackdown on lawyers and activists in July 2015. The 55-year-old was handed a three-year sentence, suspended for four years, and stripped of his political rights by a court in Tianjin on Aug. 2, 2016, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Court awards damages to Chinese in wartime forced-labor case

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Plaintiffs, accompanied by their lawyers and supporters, walk into the Hiroshima High Court on July 9 to hear a ruling on their damages suit. The high court awarded damages in full by overturning a July 2002 lower court ruling that rejected the lawsuit brought by Shao Yicheng, 78, and four other plaintiffs four years earlier against Nishimatsu Construction Co., a construction firm based in Tokyo. (Kyodo)