Category: Crime and Judiciary

A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Saturday to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling state gifts, officials and his party said. The couple pleaded not guilty when they were indicted last year. They were accused of selling the gifts, including...

A Uganda prison officer has been sacked for criticising the government on TikTok, in a rare move authorities said amounted to “gross indiscipline”. Lawrence Ampe had been under investigation over social media posts accusing senior government officials of corruption, human rights abuses and mistreatment of lower-ranking prison officers. “The standing orders don’t allow a public...

Police operatives in Yobe State have foiled an attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters on the Gujba Police Division in Gujba Local Government Area of the state. According to a post shared on X on Friday by security analyst Zagazola Makama. The attack happened late Thursday night when suspected Boko Haram elements attempted to overrun...

The House of Representatives has approved far-reaching amendments to the Electoral Act, introducing stiffer penalties for vote buying and selling, including a minimum of two years’ imprisonment or a N5 million fine, or both, alongside a 10-year ban from contesting elections. The House reached this resolution during the clause-by-clause consideration of the report of the...

A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage. The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti. A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier fine of 3,600 Romanian lei (£619;...

A court in the German city of Aachen has sentenced a man to eight-and-a-half years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife, filming the acts and then posting them online. The man, named only as Fernando P in line with German privacy laws, was found guilty of aggravated rape, grievous bodily harm and...

 Two Los Angeles-area 15-year-old gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder charges, admitting they were acting as hired hitmen for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, officials said. During two attempts to kill the cartel’s target, they wounded two people and killed one, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Each gang member expected to be paid...

A Russia-controlled court in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has sentenced a British citizen to 13 years for fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, Russia’s general prosecutor said on Thursday. The supreme court in Donetsk convicted Hayden Davies, who was taken prisoner in 2024, of participating as a mercenary in an armed conflict and sentenced him to...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old woman, identified simply as Misturah, for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and extorting the sum of N2.5 million from her husband in a staged abduction plot. The incident was first reported to the police on November 24, 2025, when a lawyer, Hamzat (surname withheld), alerted security...