Category: Crime and Judiciary

A Colombian court on Monday sentenced former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso to 40 years in prison for crimes committed against Indigenous communities in the province of La Guajira, including homicides, forced disappearances and the displacement of people from 2002 to 2006. The special tribunal that hears cases from the country’s armed conflict said in its...

The arrests were confirmed in a statement issued on Sunday by Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, who said the coordinated operation was carried out to protect Ghana’s cyber space and international digital reputation. Fifty-three (53) Nigerian nationals have been arrested in Ghana following a major intelligence-led operation targeting suspected...

A journalist in Taiwan was detained on allegations of bribing army officers to provide military information to people from mainland China, as the self-ruled island cracks down on potential infiltration from Beijing. Taiwan’s Qiaotou District Prosecutors Office said in a statement that a district court ordered the detention of a television reporter and five current...

A teenager inspired by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana planned a copycat attack on a children’s dance school and planned to bomb the first Oasis reunion gig in Cardiff. McKenzie Morgan, 18, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institute, after pleading guilty to possession of an al-Qaeda training manual....

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to...

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Wednesday her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro’s rule in what she described as “a new political moment” since his ouster by the United States earlier this month. It appeared to be an understatement for the Maduro loyalist now tasked with placating an unpredictable...

The 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to disqualify prosecutors in the case over an alleged conflict of interest. Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk’s Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a...

A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice on Thursday ordered the transfer of former President Jair Bolsonaro from the federal police headquarters in Brasilia to a much bigger cell with an outside area in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, also in the capital. The transfer was described as a move to a facility with “more favorable conditions” for...

The Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Adetayo Akerele, has once again demonstrated exceptional professionalism, vigilance, and keen observational skills with the arrest of three impostors who unlawfully paraded themselves as officers of the Nigerian Navy to defraud members of the public and obstruct lawful government operations . The suspects were apprehended following an...