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Joshua Wong ‘to plead guilty’ in Hong Kong security case
Published on 18/08/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong will plead guilty in the city’s biggest national security case, local media reported, after being detained for more than a year without a trial date under the China-drafted law.
Dogged canine lawyer has no regrets
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» The case before the court involved a Rhode Island greyhound named Lexus, accused of killing a Pomeranian in a dog park. The prosecution was asking for the death penalty, and a lawyer for the defence, Richard Rosenthal, was there to stop it.
Indian man wins 22-year court fight for 20 rupees
Published on 12/08/2022
» A lawyer who won a 22-year court battle for compensation from Indian Railways after being overcharged 20 rupees (9 baht) said on Friday that his quest for justice was worth the effort.
Griner sentence sparks show of solidarity, calls for US action
AFP, Published on 05/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Phoenix Mercury and Connecticut Sun players linked arms in 42 seconds of silence before their game Thursday in solidarity with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was sentenced earlier to nine years in prison in Russia.
Rights group seeks arrest of former Sri Lanka president Rajapaksa in Singapore
Published on 24/07/2022
» COLOMBO: A rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore's attorney general, seeking the arrest of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role in the South Asian nation's decades-long civil war.
US school shooter faces death penalty at sentencing trial
AFP, Published on 18/07/2022
» FORT LAUDERDALE (UNITED STATES) - A young man who gunned down 17 people at his former high school in Florida went on trial in the southern US state on Monday, with jurors set to hand down either the death penalty or a life sentence.
Like none other: profound impact of conservative US Supreme Court
AFP, Published on 03/07/2022
» WASHINGTON - Two years after President Donald Trump filled its ranks with conservatives, the US Supreme Court has engineered a sharp turn in US constitutional law that could have a profound effect on American life for decades.
Failed Autopsies, False Arrests
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» Emberly McLean-Bernard, born six weeks premature in rural Mississippi, weighed less than 2.2 kilogrammes when doctors sent her home. She did not cry and barely ate, her mother said, and not two days elapsed before she began to gasp for breath. Jocelyn McLean rushed her daughter to the nearest emergency room, but the baby was already turning blue.
Erdogan warns Turkey may still block Nordic NATO drive
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» MADRID - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told Sweden and Finland that he could still block their drives to join NATO if they fail to implement a new accession deal with Ankara.
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail sentence
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL (GERMANY) - A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.