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Category: Crime and Judiciary
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Los Angeles Court Declares A$AP Rocky Not Guilty In Hollywood Shooting
Los Angeles Court declared Rakim Mayers a hip hop performer professionally known as A$AP Rocky not guilty on Tuesday at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The courtroom had exploded into screaming glee as Rocky leapt from the defense table into the gallery into the arm of his partner...
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Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Charges Former President Bolsonaro With Alleged Coup, Plan To Poison Current President
Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in...
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19-Year-Old Activists Accused Of Breaching A National Security Law Became An Enemy Of The Chinese State.
Just over a year ago, Chloe Cheung was sitting her A-levels. Now she’s on a Chinese government list of wanted dissidents. The choir girl-turned-democracy activist woke up to news in December that police in Hong Kong had issued a $HK1 million ($100,000; £105,000) reward for information leading to her capture abroad. “I actually just wanted...
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Activists, Campaigners Renew Calls To Criminalise Marital Rape In India As Judge Frees Man Accused Of Raping Wife
An Indian court’s ruling that a man’s forced “unnatural sex” with his wife is not an offence has led to huge outrage and sparked renewed calls for better protections for married women. The controversial order has also brought back into the spotlight the issue of marital rape in a country which has stubbornly refused to...
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Fiji Court Sentences Tennessee Man To Life In Prison For Murdering His Wife During Their Honeymoon
A man from Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022, a court official said Friday. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he can be considered for release, a Fiji High Court registry official in Lautoka said. Dawson was convicted...
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Hamas Releases Three Names Of Hostages Due For Saturday Release
Hamas has released the names of three hostages due to be freed on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel. They are 29-year-old Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 46-year-old Argentine-Israeli Yair Horn, and 36-year-old US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, whom were all seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz on the edge of Gaza. Israel has threatened to resume bombing...
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Police In Lagos Arrests Suspected Cultists Returning From Conference
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspected cultists while they were returning from their confraternity’s annual conference. The suspects, identified as 21-year-old Okey Bright, popularly known as “B in Fine Boy,” and 22-year-old Daniel Prince, alias “Rugged Promotion,” were apprehended around 4:00 a.m. on Monday....
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Supreme Court Rejects Fubara’s Suit
A three-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji has dismissed the appeal filed by the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, challenging the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Martin Amaewhule. The Supreme Court has upheld the positions of 27 Rivers State lawmakers and rejected Governor Siminalayi...