Berlusconi took another hit in October 2009, when Italy's Constitutional Court struck down a law that protected the prime minister from prosecution while in office.
Later that year Italy's Constitutional Court struck down a 2008 law that had granted the prime minister immunity from prosecution while in office.
As with the conversation with Saccà, we will probably never know whether or not Berlusconi broke the law in this case, thanks to the legislation his lawyers pushed through parliament giving the Prime Minister immunity from prosecution while in office.
ROME — Italy's highest court overturned a law on Wednesday granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiimmunity from prosecution while in office, in a ruling that reopens corruption trials against him and worsens his already weakened political position.
A surprise, last-minute defense witness in the murder trial of a rabbi testified today that the prosecution's prime witness hoped to profit from the case with a book or movie deal.
France led the opposition.See article: France's blocking tactics over CAPMore than 77% of Czechs, in a turnout of 55%, voted to join the European Union.A bill to grant Italy's five most senior figures, including the prime minister, immunity from prosecution while in office was passed in parliament and is expected to come into force within days, after the president signs it.
Moreover, the bombings laid the groundwork for the furious military campaign against Chechnya and for the political rise of Mr. Putin, then the prime minister, whose relentless prosecution of the war garnered a surge of popular support that propelled him into the presidency.
Behan's testimony was significant, since he was a prime witness for the prosecution but had equivocated on this point.
As the world reacted to the first public account of the CIA's torture program with shock and calls for prosecution, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted the news with a shrug.
There was an attempt to right perceived wrongs in 1973, when Bangladeshi law authorised a war crimes tribunal – but the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh's first Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, stopped prosecutions in their tracks.
