Category Archives: Justice
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Dallas Morning News. Aug. 13, 2021. Editorial: Texas hospitals are facing a COVID-19 disaster. Gov. Abbott must act
Another Navalny ally handed restrictions over protests
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Monday sentenced another ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 1 1/2 years of parole-like restrictions in a controversial case targeting opposition supporters in the wake of mass protests earlier this...
UN urged to probe alleged disappearances in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A global human rights group urged the United Nations on Monday to lead an independent investigation into the alleged disappearances of government critics and others at the hands of security forces in Bangladesh, an allegation t...
Ex-Bosnia Serb soldier sentenced to 20 years for war crimes
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Monday convicted a former Bosnian Serb policeman and soldier of war crimes during the 1992-95 conflict and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
Air raid sirens sound in Israel after rocket fired from Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) — Air raid sirens sounded in southern Israel on Monday after a rocket was fired from the Gaza
Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime launched his courtroom appeal Monday, seeking to convince a long-running international tribunal to overturn his conviction on genocide char...
Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site”
Detainee says China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site”
Government arguing unprecedented application of fraud law in Meng case: lawyer
VANCOUVER — A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou accused Canada's attorney general of turning fraud law "on its head," as the Huawei executive's formal extradition hearing resumed Monday. Defence lawyer Mark Sandler told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that governmen...
India’s harsh anti-terror law comes under rare scrutiny
NEW DELHI (AP) — Mohammed Irfan was 24 and newly married. Business was brisk at his modest battery shop. And within two months he was expecting the birth of his first child.
