Category: Crime and Judiciary

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the EFCC in Kano succeeded in convicting and sentencing social media influencer Murja Ibrahim Kunya. The verdict was handed down by Justice Simone Amobeda at the Federal High Court in Kano. Kunya was detained on suspicion of playfully throwing Naira notes around her hotel room at Tahir Guest Palace in...

A French court on Wednesday found a retired surgeon guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of patients, many of them children, in a trial that has shaken France. Joel Le Scouarnec’s abuse of his patients is considered France’s worst case of pedocriminality to go to trial. He stood accused of aggravated rape or sexual assault against...

As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small...

 A former police chief in Arkansas who is serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape escaped from prison Sunday, state corrections officials said. Grant Hardin, the former police chief of the tiny town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, where he has been held since 2017....

Lagos, Nigeria – Police officers have captured a fugitive who fled the Ilesa Correctional Centre in Osun State during a recent jailbreak. Thanks to an alert from concerned citizens, authorities arrested 39-year-old Kabiru Oyedun on Sunday, May 21, in the Oshin-Welder area of Ayobo, Lagos. The swift action demonstrates how community cooperation strengthens law enforcement...

Detained pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil met his month-old son for the time on Thursday before an immigration hearing. He visited with his wife Dr Noor Abdalla and son Deen in an immigration court in rural Louisiana Video credit: Reuters

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be protected from deportation, which could put his life at risk, his attorneys argued Thursday. Ahead of a critical court hearing before an immigration judge in Louisiana that focused on whether he was entitled to relief from deportation, including through asylum, Khalil met and held his newborn son for the...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s senate has stripped former President Joseph Kabila of his immunity, paving the way for his prosecution over his alleged backing of rebels in the east. Authorities have accused him of treason and war crimes, saying there was a “substantial body of documents, testimony and material facts” linking Kabila to the M23 armed...

 After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would likely mean his own execution in weeks or months. A federal judge has ordered a 45-day delay in James Robertson’s request to have a...