2017 – Page 53 – World Justice News

Trayvon Martin awarded honorary degree at Florida Memorial University

May 15, 2017 zoshinuk 0

by WFOR via CNN MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – (WFOR/CNN) – Florida Memorial University on Saturday awarded an honorary degree to slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Martin’s parents attended the ceremony and accepted the teenager’s degree in […]

‘Day after day without knowing’: Federal court to hear landmark challenge on indefinite immigration detention

May 15, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

On Monday, the Federal Court of Canada will hear the first-ever constitutional challenge to the regime, according to Jared Will, lawyer for Alvin Brown. Lawyers for a man who spent five years in maximum security […]

As terror-related cases surge in Malaysia, families cry foul

May 15, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Melissa Goh KUALA LUMPUR: In a stuffy corridor at the Duta court complex in Kuala Lumpur, 62-year-old Ramlah sits quietly on a bench. Her 4-year-old grandson sleeps soundly next to her, worn out from […]

US transgender trooper Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty after prison term

May 15, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Chelsea Manning, the transgender US soldier convicted of espionage for leaking national security secrets, will remain an active-duty following her release from a military prison, according to the army. Manning, whose sentence was commuted by […]

Brooklyn man jailed for 1980 murder seeks new trial after learning he was arrested by mob cop

May 15, 2017 zoshinuk 0

BY Rocco Parascandola A Brooklyn man doing 25 years to life for the murder of a cabbie says he suffered in silence — and innocence — until he found out the detective who busted him […]

J.W. Ledford Jr., Georgia death row inmate, requests firing squad in federal appeals suit

May 14, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

A convicted murderer slated to die by lethal injection on Tuesday has mounted an eleventh-hour bid to be killed by firing squad instead. Lawyers for the condemned, J.W. Ledford Jr., argue their client has developed […]

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing

May 13, 2017 zoshinuk 0

The US attorney general has ordered federal prosecutors to seek harsher criminal sentencing, undoing an Obama-era policy to ease prison overcrowding. In a two-page memo, Jeff Sessions instructed US attorneys to “charge and pursue the […]

Ex-congresswoman guilty of soliciting scholarship donations for ‘slush fund’

May 12, 2017 zoshinuk 0

Former U.S. congresswoman Corrine Brown has been convicted of fraudulently soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship donations that, prosecutors say, she used for a personal “slush fund.” Brown, a Florida Democrat who served […]

International ransomware cyber attack paralyses many NHS Computers

May 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

A major incident has been declared after NHS services across England and Scotland were hit by a large-scale cyber-attack. Staff cannot access patient data, which has been scrambled by ransomware. There is no evidence patient […]

Man jailed for life after pouring paint down his girlfriend’s throat and burning her alive

May 12, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Georgia Diebelius A man has been jailed for life after he battered his girlfriend with an iron, poured paint down her throat and burnt her alive. Anthony Porter, 33, murdered Andraya Lyons, 38, after […]

Human Rights

US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

July 1, 2026 0

The US Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that […]

Human Rights

Four men held over child marriage in Sierra Leone appear in landmark court case

June 28, 2026 0

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday […]

Human Rights

Jail time and unlimited fines planned under conversion practices ban

June 25, 2026 0

Those who carry out conversion practices – commonly known as “conversion therapy” – could be jailed for up to five years under landmark new plans. The draft Conversion Practices Bill, which criminalises “abusive acts” aiming […]

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Year: 2017

Trayvon Martin awarded honorary degree at Florida Memorial University

‘Day after day without knowing’: Federal court to hear landmark challenge on indefinite immigration detention

As terror-related cases surge in Malaysia, families cry foul

US transgender trooper Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty after prison term

Brooklyn man jailed for 1980 murder seeks new trial after learning he was arrested by mob cop

J.W. Ledford Jr., Georgia death row inmate, requests firing squad in federal appeals suit

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing

Ex-congresswoman guilty of soliciting scholarship donations for ‘slush fund’

International ransomware cyber attack paralyses many NHS Computers

Man jailed for life after pouring paint down his girlfriend’s throat and burning her alive