Justice News
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday to rally against moves by the rightwing Law and Justice government that they say undermine the rule of law.
|
|
By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has authorized opening preliminary investigations into allegations that President Michel Temer sought illicit campaign donations in 2012.
|
|
By AFP
Stockholm -
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced another setback in his legal stand-off with Sweden Friday after an appeals court rejected his request to lift an arrest warrant for him over a 2010 rape accusation.
|
|
By AFP
Stockholm -
A Swedish appeals court will on Friday decide whether to maintain an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape accusation which he fears could lead to his extradition to the US.
|
|
By AFP
Quito -
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to answer questions from Swedish investigators probing rape allegations against him from October 17 in Ecuador's embassy in London, Ecuadoran justice officials said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Taipei -
Taiwan has charged three foreigners over a $2.6 million cyberheist that used malware to hack into a major local bank's ATM network, prosecutors said Tuesday, adding that they were seeking 12-year jail terms.
|
|
By AFP
Diyarbakir -
The leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, is "in good health" and has called for an end to the Kurdish conflict, his brother said Monday after visiting him in jail.
|
|
By AFP
Istanbul -
Jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on Sunday received his first family visit in two years, meeting his brother on the Turkish prison island where he has been held for over one-and-a-half decades, his lawyers said.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Nobel-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk on Sunday lashed the arrest of a leading journalist and warned Turkey was heading towards "a regime of terror.
|
|
By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkish police on Saturday detained a veteran journalist and his academic brother as part of the investigation into the failed July 15 coup, the latest prominent figures to be detained in the controversial crackdown after the putsch.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Prisoners throughout the United States went on strike Friday, answering social media calls to protest prison living conditions in a mobilization whose magnitude remains difficult to assess.
|
|
By AFP
Buenos Aires -
An Argentine mother who first sued military officers nearly 38 years ago for the disappearance of her pregnant daughter under the former dictatorship finally saw them convicted on Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Simferopol -
Authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea on Wednesday released prominent Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov from a psychiatric hospital, where he was forcibly detained for three weeks as he faces extremism charges.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
The son of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea's veteran ruler will go on trial in France on charges of plundering his country to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Paris, judicial sources told AFP on Wednesday.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, sued two media outlets that alleged she worked as an escort in the 1990s.Filed in a Maryland court, the suit is against Mail Media, Inc.
|
|
By AFP
Nice -
A Nice court finally suspended the burkini ban on Thursday after authorities in the French Riviera resort had defied a ruling by the country's highest administrative court.
|
|
By AFP
Prague -
A Czech non-profit organisation on Friday said it had filed a criminal complaint against dozens of individuals, including two former Czechoslovak communist leaders, for the deaths decades ago of five Germans killed while trying to cross the Iron Curtai...
|
|
By AFP
Ankara -
US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he understood the "intense feeling" in Turkey over the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara accuses of masterminding the July 15 failed coup and wants to see extradited.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
The Israeli army said Wednesday it has closed its files on several allegations of military misconduct during the 2014 Gaza war but others are still under investigation.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
The Israeli army said Wednesday it has closed its files on several allegations of military misconduct during the 2014 Gaza war but others are still under investigation.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
The Israeli army said Wednesday it has closed its files on several allegations of military misconduct during the 2014 Gaza war but others are still under investigation.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
A Texas court offered an unexpected stay of the execution of a man convicted of a murder for which he was not even present.
|
|
By AFP
Nouakchott -
Thirteen anti-slavery activists in Mauritania were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison, despite criticism of the case against them by international rights groups.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Jeffery Wood did not fire the gun that killed a Texas store clerk during a robbery gone wrong, nor did he even witness the shooting. But that didn't stop the most active death penalty state in the US from scheduling his execution next week.
|
|
By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkish prosecutors have demanded two life sentences and an additional 1,900 years in prison for US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for masterminding last month's failed coup, state media reported on Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkish police on Monday raided four major courts in Istanbul in search of 190 suspects wanted over last month's attempted coup, state media said.
|
|
By AFP
Havana -
Colombian leaders and rebels seeking a historic peace accord sought Pope Francis and UN chief Ban Ki-moon's help Friday in setting up a court to prosecute atrocities committed during the conflict.
|
|
By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador says it will let Swedish officials interview Julian Assange at its embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been sheltering for the past four years.
|
|
By AFP
Toukyo -
A Japanese woman and her former partner were acquitted Wednesday in a retrial for the alleged murder of the woman's 11-year-old daughter after the pair had spent about two decades in jail.
|
|
By AFP
Santiago -
Chile's ex-president Sebastian Pinera on Tuesday denied accusations that he paid bribes to Argentine officials to help his former airline business.
|
apis-316681 apis-316659 apis-316012 apis-315998 apis-315739 apis-315715 apis-315633 apis-315589 apis-315561 apis-315451 apis-315426 apis-315361 apis-315244 apis-315238 apis-314823 apis-314773 apis-314279 apis-314093 apis-314083 apis-314083 apis-314083 apis-313754 apis-313684 apis-313616 apis-313448 apis-313373 apis-313196 apis-313077 apis-313025 apis-312990
Justice Image
Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Young's sister Amanda Grift.
California State Assemblymen and former San Francisco City Supervisor, Tom Ammiano was a prominent figure at the Jobs With Justice protest rally at City Hall, Dec. 14, 2010. Photo courtesy of Jobs With Justice, San Francisco Chapter
Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Organizer Jim Gurnett.
Iftikhar Chaudhry - Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court Gentlemanldn
Memorial vigil for Kyle Young. Young's mother places a ribbon on the memorial plaque.
Scales of Justice Easy Stock Photos
Lt General Karenzi Karake (L). Wazaonline.com
Memorial vigil for Kyle Young.
The Palace of Justice in Lima, Peru where Van der Sloot was charged with murder. and2000
Memorial vigil for Kyle Young.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. TalkMediaNews/flickr
European court of human rights blogs.reuters.com
The federal courtroom of the Supreme Court of Canada Xiazhuoli
After attending a mass at the Church, Ladies in White group in Havana peacefully march demanding the release of their loved ones who are political prisoners. dumplife (Mihai Romanciuc)
The often debated concept of blind justice is represented figuratively on the Mississippi State Capitol building. Szlea (ShawnZlea)/Flickr.com
400 men walk in heels to raise women's rights awareness Screengrab via fox2now
|
|
_courtroom_1.JPG)
