Category: Crime and Judiciary

Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an appeal. The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin in 2020 – an incident that sparked...

Warning: This story contains accounts of rape and other violence that readers may find distressing. Helene was 17 years old when a gang attacked her neighbourhood in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. She strokes her baby daughter, asleep in her lap, while describing how armed men abducted her as she tried to flee, and held her...

 Indonesian authorities said Thursday they have arrested two foreigners accused of smuggling cocaine to the tourist island of Bali. A Brazilian man and a South African woman were arrested separately on July 13 after customs officers at Bali’s international airport saw suspicious items in the man’s luggage and the woman’s underwear on X-ray scans. Indonesia...

One after another, the friends and family of the four University of Idaho students killed in their home by Bryan Kohberger vented their emotions in sobs, insults and curses before a packed courtroom Wednesday as he was sentenced to life in prison. Ben Mogen, the father of Madison Mogen, credited her with helping keep him...

An Alabama man is accused of tying children up in an underground bunker and allowing men to pay roughly $200 to sexually abuse them. Andres Velazques-Trejo, 29, William Chase McElroy, 21, and Dalton Terrell, also 21, are jailed in connection with the horrific sex abuse and human trafficking of at least six children between the ages of...

Jacksonville police say officers did not violate criminal law during the violent traffic stop of William McNeil Jr. — despite disturbing footage showing him punched and dragged. An internal investigation is underway to determine if the officers violated department policy.

A Black man who was shown on video being punched and dragged from his car by Florida law officers during a traffic stop will speak to the public on Wednesday. William McNeil Jr., along with his family and attorneys, is set to host a news conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Church of Jacksonville. Footage...

Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital, New Delhi, and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates. The suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money by promising overseas employment, said senior police officer Sushil Ghule of Uttar Pradesh state’s special...

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” the latest move by government authorities in their relentless crackdown on dissent. The bill passed by the lower house, the State Duma, moves to its all-but-certain endorsement in the upper house and then goes to President Vladimir Putin...