Category Archives: Justice
After months, Egypt frees reporter, activist, YouTube star
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has released an online comedian, a journalist and a political activist after they spent months in pre-trail detention, two lawyers said Monday.
Blake, paralyzed in police shooting, hopeful he’ll walk soon
CHICAGO (AP) — A Black man who was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin expects to be walking soon, an accomplishment he says is tempered by
Activists block court on eve of key ruling in Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A group of pro-democracy activists in Poland entered the grounds of the country's constitutional court in an act of civil disobedience Monday, on the eve of an expected court ruling critical to the country's future relationship
Bali bomb case starts in Guantanamo 18 years after capture
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — Three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center had their first day in court Monday after being held by the U.S. for 18 years without charge in connection with the deadly 2002 Bali
Lawyers seek ICC probe into alleged war crimes in Yemen
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Human rights lawyers representing hundreds of victims of Yemen's civil war are calling on the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by the Sau...
Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters
It's a common refrain from some of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies: The Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views while those arrested during last year's
Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters
It's a common refrain from some of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies: The Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views while those arrested during last year's
Police: Station shooting, Lyft driver’s death may be linked
PLANO, Texas (AP) — Authorities were trying to determine if there was a connection between two incidents in separate Dallas suburbs Sunday, one which resulted in the wounding of a man who opened fire inside a police station and another
Poland detains activists for damaging barrier with Belarus
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thirteen activists were detained Sunday in Poland for trying to destroy part of a barbed-wire barrier that Polish authorities have erected along the border with Belarus to stop migrants from crossing in.
Montreal mayor invests $5.5 million to boost police resources to fight gun crime
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says the city will invest an additional $5.5 million in its police force in order to help fight gun crime. Plante said today alongside Chief Sylvain Caron that the amount would to dedicated to the effort to
