Category: Crime and Judiciary

U.N.-backed investigators say they have found significant evidence of “systematic torture” at Myanmar detention centers, where the military government is holding children as young as 2 years old as proxies for their parents. The Southeast Asian nation of about 54 million people has been mired in turmoil since 2021, when democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown...

In a security breach at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, 16 inmates escaped in the early hours of Tuesday after overpowering personnel on duty. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) confirmed the incident, stating that five officers sustained varying degrees of injury while trying to contain the situation, with two currently in...

The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a commercial motorcyclist, Kadir Owolabi, who was allegedly in possession of three human skulls. According to the CSP Omolola Odutola, the command’s spokesperson revealed the suspect was intercepted during a routine stop-and-search of his luggage by mobile police officers which led to the discovery of three human skulls...

 A man accused of faking his death and fleeing to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges faced an alleged victim in court Monday as a jury trial in Utah began. The man known in the U.S. as Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is accused of sexually assaulting two women in Utah in 2008....

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been sentenced to life without parole for killing an American mother of five – in a case invoked by President Donald Trump to support his border security crackdown. Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was found guilty this year in the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, 37, on a hiking...

The Federal Government is set arraign five men accused of carrying out the deadly June 5, 2022 attack on Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The arraignment, which comes nearly three years after the brutal attack that claimed dozens of lives, is a significant development in the nation’s fight against terrorism. The suspects,...

An Islamic court in Indonesia ’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing. The trial at the Islamic Shariah District Court in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, was held behind closed doors....

Miguel Uribe, 39, a rising right-wing politician and possible future presidential candidate, died after being shot in the head at a June campaign rally in Western Bogota. His wife, María Claudia Tarazona, confirmed his death early Monday. The presidential hopeful was hit three times twice in the head and once in the knee while addressing...

According to a statement by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the EFCC, the suspects were apprehended on Sunday, August 10, 2025, in a sting operation based on credible intelligence regarding their alleged involvement in internet crimes. The statement concluded that the suspects will face charges in court upon completion of investigations.

Eleven domestic workers have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of “child destruction” and illegal abortions, police have said. The women, in their 30s and 40s, were rounded up after one was found at her employer’s home with a dead foetus, later confirmed to be at least 28 weeks old. Police also found drugs...