Tag: Law and Justice

Categories Asia & Pacific

Twitter hit by 3 police cases in India over alleged child pornography content and controversial Kashmir map

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Police in India have launched three cases against the social media platform over the alleged distribution of child pornography, and a fourth for a controversial depiction of the disputed Kashmir region on a map. … Read More >Twitter hit by 3 police cases in India over alleged child pornography content and controversial Kashmir map

Categories Shows

US Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow 2.0 & Pulse nightclub survivor speaks out on gun violence

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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a voting-rights challenge to Arizona’s election laws, ruling the state may discard legal ballots that are cast in the wrong precinct even if doing so results in throwing out a much higher percentage of votes cast by Latinos, black people, and Native Americans than whites. Five years after the shooting at Pulse nightclub that claimed 49 lives, Patience Murray still struggles physically and mentally with what happened that night. “There will never be a point where I’m done learning or done healing,” she said. “And I just have to accept that.” … Read More >US Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow 2.0 & Pulse nightclub survivor speaks out on gun violence

Categories Latin America

Bolsonaro accused of using military as environmental ‘smokescreen’ after redeploying troops to protect Amazon from deforestation

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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has ordered his country’s military to return to the Amazon in a bid to combat a surge in illegal deforestation, but his critics have claimed the directive is too little too late. … Read More >Bolsonaro accused of using military as environmental ‘smokescreen’ after redeploying troops to protect Amazon from deforestation

Categories Asia & Pacific

Sexual abuse of staff when he held office comes back to bite former mayor in S. Korea, now sentenced to 3 years in prison

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Oh Keo-don, the former Mayor of Busan, South Korea, has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually abusing city staffers, following a lengthy #MeToo trial. … Read More >Sexual abuse of staff when he held office comes back to bite former mayor in S. Korea, now sentenced to 3 years in prison

Categories EU

Death of John McAfee, bitcoin evangelist and digital outlaw, ruled suicide as family demands second investigation

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Software magnate and bitcoin evangelist John McAfee’s death has been confirmed a suicide, according to a preliminary autopsy conducted in the Spanish prison he had been authorized to leave just hours before his death. … Read More >Death of John McAfee, bitcoin evangelist and digital outlaw, ruled suicide as family demands second investigation

Categories EU

Polish Catholic Church seeing ‘persistently quite high’ number of sexual abuse allegations, official says

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Religious authorities in Poland have warned that the country’s Catholic Church is facing a “wave” of allegations of sexual abuse against children and young people, and subsequent cover-ups by members of the clergy. … Read More >Polish Catholic Church seeing ‘persistently quite high’ number of sexual abuse allegations, official says

Categories EU

‘Horrible massacre’: More than 50 warders targeted in probe over heavy-handed suppression of Covid-19 riot in Italian prison

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Over 50 warders have been targeted by Italy’s judiciary, with more than 20 in detention or under house arrest, amid a probe into a major prison riot. Warders’ unions branded the measures “disproportionate” and “incomprehensible.” … Read More >‘Horrible massacre’: More than 50 warders targeted in probe over heavy-handed suppression of Covid-19 riot in Italian prison