Category: Crime and Judiciary

The Israel Foreign Ministry in a post confirmed that the effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a ‘death penalty’ sign was created by the Turkish Academics. The ministry while condemning the act rebuked the country’s authority for the “disgraceful behavior” Its statement on Sunday read: “Turkish academic creates model of hanged Netanyahu, with a...

Former Mali prime minister Moussa Mara will spend one year in prison after a Bamako court sentenced him Monday following a social media post supporting political prisoners. His punishment for “undermining the credibility of the state and opposing legitimate authority” additionally includes a one-year suspended sentence. Mara, who was prime minister for eight months from...

Operatives of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested one Ada Clement for allegedly operating a baby factory in Ore, the headquarters of Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. In a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Olayinka Ayanlade, operatives rescued five pregnant underage girls found in the illegal facility. Ayanlade said...

A 24-year-old Honduran man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Virginia died on a highway after being struck by a vehicle. The death of Josué Castro Rivera follows recent incidents in which three other immigrants in Chicago and California were killed during immigration enforcement operations under the Trump administration’s crackdown. Castro Rivera was headed to a gardening...

 London police said Sunday they arrested a convicted sex offender and asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison in a blunder that has embarrassed the government. The Metropolitan Police said Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was arrested in the Finsbury Park area in north London. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would be deported as soon as...

A man who raped two women who he brought to the UK from Uganda has been jailed. Charles Isabirye promised the women work and a place to live when he brought them into the country, but neither ever transpired, Leicestershire Police said. He denied the offences during his trial at Leicester Crown Court and claimed...

Nigerian Army’s troops said to have apprehend a notorious bandit leader, Idris Idris (alias Babawo Badoo), with 37 other suspects in a series of operations spanning the past three days. In a statement on its social media handle on Thursday, also said own troops during the coordinated operations across the country rescued 15 kidnap victims,...

 A Lebanese pop star turned Islamist militant who surrendered this month after 12 years on the run appeared in Beirut court Tuesday for the first time. Fadel Shaker had been hiding out in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh since bloody street clashes erupted between Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in nearby cells while he is in prison to ensure he comes to no harm, France’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Sarkozy on Tuesday began a five-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris — a...