Africa
Mozambique policemen jailed for Covid-row killing
The officers beat to death a young man in a dispute related to Covid-19 restriction in 2020.
BBC
Results for "Abuja jail break"
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Africa
Rwanda asylum plan: Campaigners' challenge to be heard on Monday
About 31 people have been told they could be on that flight on Tuesday, with more planes to go later this year.
BBC
Courts
Air Condition Specialist sentenced 45 years to jail over robbery
Edem Morkli will serve 15 years for robbery, 15 years for conspiracy to commit crime and 15 years for causing harm, all to run concurrently.
GNA
Europe
Swiss trial opens for ex-FIFA boss Blatter, ex-UEFA chief Platini
The pair are being tried over a two million Swiss franc ($2.08m) payment in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA.
aljazeera
Africa
South Africa: Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE
Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta moved to South Africa from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 1993, just as white-minority rule was ending.
BBC
Africa
UK extradites Nigerian to U.S. for alleged email fraud
Together with two others, also Nigerians, the trio are said to have allegedly participated in Business Email Compromise Scams (“BEC scams”) that targeted thousands of victims around the world, including in the United States.
Premium Times Nig
Others
Indian High Court grants divorce to husband on ground of cruelty after wife found to be adulterous
It was noted that after reconciling their differences and deciding to co-habit with each other after a long hiatus, the couple lived together hardly for 24 days, but the wife was found to be pregnant for over 40 days.
Bar and Bench
General
Decriminalizing petty offences: Fasten process of enacting our community service law - Dr. Isidore Tuffour
So for me, the call that I’ll make at this point, is the need to fasten the process of enacting our community service law."
DL News
Crime
Criminalizing drumming, begging doesn’t make sense anymore – GIMPA Law HOD
Dr. Tuffuor quizzed what we seek to gain as a nation by punishing a group of people who may meet in a house to drum just because they have not acquired a license from the District Assembly?
DL News
Africa
Freed Kenyan cleric refuses to leave jail
The cleric has alleged that he could be abducted and killed by the state once he is free
BBC Africa
Africa
Nigerians sharing ‘school sex tape’ face 14 years
According to Lagos state laws, it is illegal for minors to engage in sex. Any image showing sexually explicit conduct involving a child - including "producing, distributing, receiving or possessing" one - was an offence liable to a sentence...
BBC
General
Legal experts call for review of ADR Act
Some legal experts have called for the review of the Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR) Act and Legal Aid Commission Act to include petty offences.
GNA
Europe
Former UK Coca-Cola boss caught taking £1.5m in bribes
Noel Corry, 56, provided companies with confidential information to give them an advantage over rivals when bidding for electrical services contracts for bottling plants in the UK.
AFP
Courts
Defilement: Jail term for convict reduced
The convict, Oppong Yeboah was arrested in March of 2018 for defiling a six-year-old girl.
DL News
Courts
Man sentenced 20 years to prison for defiling girl with health condition
The victim's condition makes her unable to talk or walk on her own.
DL News
Courts
Stealing of cocoyam, plantain: Labourer imprisoned 12 months
He was thus charged for stealing contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960(Act 29) which states in part that; “ Whoever steals shall be guilty of a second-degree felony."
DL News
US
US denies Hushpuppi committed fraud from prison
On Thursday, a document emerged on social media claiming that the FBI filed new evidence against Hushpuppi on Wednesday for defrauding Americans using prison internet facilities.
BBC
Courts
Serial thief sentenced 14 years to jail for stealing cocoa beans
The accused is known to have a record of cocoa beans theft.
DL News
US
US: Disney employees, former judge among 108 arrested for alleged human trafficking operations
The suspects were arrested in a six-day undercover human trafficking operation.
CBS News
US
Former "Empire" movie star sentenced 150 days in jail, for fake hate crime incident
The one-time actor of TV drama, 'Empire' claimed his attackers were racist and homophobic towards him.
DL News