Category: Crime and Judiciary

A prison riot in Mozambique’s capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country’s police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on Wednesday, as civil unrest linked to October’s disputed election continues.A decision on Monday by Mozambique’s top court confirming long-ruling party Frelimo’s victory in the election has sparked fresh nationwide protests by opposition...

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria on Monday said the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus, and it is preparing to deploy.The visit led by Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria, was the first...

One of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel has returned to Colombia after serving more than 20 years in jail in the US for drug trafficking.Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, now 67 years old, was deported by the US government and landed in Bogota on Monday a free man.Ochoa was one of the founding members of...

Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones at Israel.Haniyeh was killed in a building where...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, on Sunday visited Ilorin, Kwara State, over the death of a 35-year-old Jimoh Abdulquadri reportedly killed by the police. Jimoh was reported to have been tortured to death by some policemen at the command on Saturday.According to investigation, Jimoh of Balogun Fulani community in Erubu, reportedly died in police...

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month.Hochul said in a statement Saturday that she has directed the state’s corrections department commissioner to begin the process of terminating 14 workers involved in the fatal attack at...

 A man has been arrested on suspicion of beheading his 1-year-old son, Northern California authorities said.The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Friday that deputies responding to an early morning family disturbance call found a woman outside a home who told deputies that her husband Andrey Demskiy, 28, assaulted her and her mother.Deputies...

Current and former University of Michigan students have filed a lawsuit against the school alleging that it targeted and disproportionately disciplined pro-Palestinian students involved in campus protests.The federal lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan accuses the school of violating the students’ constitutional rights to free speech, due process...

The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is expected to be arraigned in a Manhattan court Monday on murder and terror charges in a state case that will run parallel to his federal prosecution.Luigi Mangione, 26, was formally charged last week by the Manhattan district attorney with multiple counts of murder, including murder as...

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the Saudi-Arabian doctor accused of killing four women and a 9-year-old boy by driving into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, now faces five counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault after appearing in court Saturday night.His court appearance comes as details emerge about the attack and possible motives.German privacy laws...