The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa has upheld an 18-year prison sentence for a Nigerian national, Chinedu Justice Obasi, for his role in a human trafficking syndicate in Pretoria. The ruling by the Gauteng High Court on Monday, August 25, 2025, affirmed the original conviction and sentence handed down in 2018, dismissing Obasi’s appeal Obasi, who was found guilty of human trafficking and entering into a fraudulent marriage to secure residency. According to Independent News Eswatini, Obasi was convicted in December 2017 on three counts and handed his sentence in September 2018. Court records seen by the news...
French Journalist ‘Isolated’ In Algerian Prison Amid Paris-Algiers Tensions
A prominent French sports journalist sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria at the end of June is reportedly in “fighting mood” but feels “isolated”, his parents told AFP after visiting their son earlier this month. Christophe Gleizes, who is being held in the city of Tizi Ouzou, is being detained against the background of escalating political tensions between Paris and its former North African colony. Gleizes, a contributor to the French magazine So Foot, was arrested in May 2024 while on a reporting trip. Algerian authorities accused him of having contacts with members of the Movement for the...
Woman Says Zou Raped Her Hours Before Other Attack
Two women who reported being drugged and raped by prolific sex offender Zhenhao Zou said they were attacked within 24 hours of each other, the BBC has established. The first woman who says she was raped told us she was shocked to learn about the second attack and had since felt guilt for not reporting her rape sooner. Metropolitan Police detectives investigating Zou’s offences initially questioned whether the two women might be the same person, because the two attacks sounded identical and happened in such a short space of time. This timing showed Zou was confident, a source familiar with...
Elon Musk’s Companies, X Corp and xAI, Files 61-Page Antitrust Lawsuit, In The U.S. District Court Against Apple Inc.
Elon Musk’s companies, X Corp and xAI, filed a 61-page antitrust lawsuit on Monday, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities. The complaint states that Apple, which holds approximately 65% of the U.S. smartphone market, and OpenAI, which controls over 80% of the generative AI chatbot market, have entered into an anticompetitive agreement to maintain their respective monopolies and suppress rivals, including xAI’s Grok chatbot. At the core of the suit is Apple’s and OpenAI’s June 2024 partnership, which exclusively integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Apple’s iOS, making it the default...
