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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's lawyer Aamer Anwar - the only person convicted for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 - says he will "fight robustly any attempts not to disclose information to the defense". This comes as the Scottish body responsible for investigating possible miscarriages of justices says it has referred his case for appeal. SOUNDBITE
As the family of convicted Lockerbie bomber Adelbaset Al-Megrahi begin an appeal against his conviction, their lawyer says that the United States and United Kingdom 'stand accused of living a monumental lie for 31 years' for the imprisonment of the now-deceased Libyan national. SOUNDBITE from the al-Megrahi family lawyer
Suriname's highest court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for ex-president Desi Bouterse, who lost an appeal against his conviction for the 1982 killings of political opponents. The verdict puts an end to the legal saga surrounding the onetime strongman of the small Dutch-speaking South American nation, but some fear the decision could result in unrest. IMAGES
Gisele Pelicot, a French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged, arrives at the court in Avignon with her three children, while her daughter Caroline Darian and her two step-daughters were due to speak on the fifth day of the trial. Photos of them sleeping were also found on the computer of her husband, Dominique Pelicot. IMAGES
The victim of the Mazan rape case, Gisèle P., who was drugged and raped for ten years by her husband and scores of strangers he recruited on the internet, arrives at the court in Avignon before taking the witness stand. Police counted a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom were identified. IMAGES
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