Category: Crime and Judiciary

A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March, according to an AFP journalist inside the courtroom. The four photographers were arrested in dawn raids several days into the huge wave of protests sparked by the arrest of Istanbul’s influential...

A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes while serving as governor of a southern state. Vizcarra was sentenced to immediate imprisonment and a nine-year ban from public office. He is expected to appeal the decision. “This is not justice, it is revenge,”...

Lawyers for a pro-Palestinian protest group that has been outlawed by the British government went to court Wednesday in a bid to overturn its classification as a terrorist organization. Palestine Action is asking the High Court to rule that the government erred in classing it as a terror group alongside the likes of al-Qaida and...

 A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state’s Department of Corrections. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to die by firing squad in September, but the Utah Supreme Court blocked the impending execution in August after his attorneys argued his...

The disappearance of a New Zealand father with his children in a forest for several years before he was discovered and shot dead by the police has prompted the government to launch a major inquiry into how officials handled the case. The public inquiry — which is a formal, independent investigation of matters of significant...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections. The president told French media he had been deposed and arrested. It is the latest of several coups in recent years in West Africa. “The High Military Command for...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk in a post said that people who falsely call someone a “Nazi” or “fascist” should be charged with Incitement to Murder, he called out against false labelling quoting reports linking such terms to recent attacks. These included the September 10 sniper killing of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, where the...

The Diocese of Kaduna has confirmed the death of Anglican Priest Venerable Edwin Achi, from Ebenezer Anglican Church, Nigeria, who was kidnapped along his wife Sarah, and their daughter from their home in Nissi community on 28 October 2025. The priest’s nephew named ‘Avril’ on X as well broke the sad news on the platform:...

The United States President Trump has vowed full wrath of the law on a 29-year-old Afghan immigrant who shot two West Virginia Guardsmen on Wednesday afternoon at 17th and I streets NW in Washington, D.C., as the guardsmen conducted high-visibility patrols amid recent deployments for public order. President Trump in a statement had vowed: “The...

A woman in New Zealand who was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered will spend at least 17 years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday. Justice Geoffrey Venning told Hakyung Lee at the High Court hearing in the city of Auckland that she would begin her sentence as a...