111.   Trials for political offences fall short of international standards because courts accept statements which defendants say were extracted from them under duress by police, Amnesty said.

112.   Khokar, a former member of the National Assembly, was released on Christmas Day after a court accepted his bail plea last week.

113.   She escaped possible execution after the court accepted the lesser charge instead of murder, which is punishable by hanging in Singapore.

114.   The court accepted that Murphy was not directly involved in planting the bomb.

115.   The court accepted the adoption request after Israeli security services said they had no reason to believe he represented a danger to the Jewish state.

116.   The court accepted the case, the first of its kind against any Islamic party leader, and sent it for judicial enquiry, the press reports said.

117.   The defense counsel had repeatedly threatened to stay away from the trial unless the court accepted their demand to hold the trial at a slower pace.

118.   The constitutional court did accept that public events and shows held in France should provide for translations and French materials if foreign languages were used.

119.   The court accepted medical evidence and halted the trial in September last year.

120.   The court accepted their denial, ordering their release and their expulsion from the region, the sources and human rights activists said.