March 2020 – Page 5 – World Justice News

Robert Durst: Jury shown The Jinx finale at murder trial

March 5, 2020 World Justice News 0

The murder trial of US millionaire Robert Durst, the subject of the documentary The Jinx, has started with the jury viewing clips from the series. Prosecutors allege that in 2000 the 76-year-old killed Susan Berman […]

US defence department linguist charged with espionage

March 4, 2020 World Justice News 0

A US defence department linguist has been charged with transmitting “highly sensitive classified” information to a foreign national linked to the Lebanese Islamist militant group Hezbollah. Mariam Thompson, 61, is accused of endangering the lives […]

Spain plans ‘only yes means yes’ rape law

March 4, 2020 World Justice News 0

Spain’s government has backed a proposed change to its controversial rape laws that focuses on the importance of sexual consent. A series of court cases prompted outrage when men were convicted of sexual abuse, rather […]

Mexican YouTuber sentenced to 50 years over kidnap

March 3, 2020 World Justice News 0

A YouTuber who kidnapped a woman in the Mexican state of Chihuahua in February 2018 has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Germán Abraham Loera Acosta was one of six men who seized a […]

HMP Whitemoor: Two arrests over prison officer ‘terror attack

March 3, 2020 World Justice News 0

Two men are being questioned under terror laws over an attack on a prison officer at a maximum security jail. Four officers and a nurse were injured as cells were unlocked at HMP Whitemoor in […]

Argentina abortion: President Alberto Fernández proposes legalisation

March 2, 2020 World Justice News 0

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has said he will send a bill to legalise abortion to Congress within the next 10 days. Mr Fernández, who was sworn in as president in December, has previously described abortion […]

US court reverses Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

March 1, 2020 World Justice News 0

A US federal court has ruled that the Trump administration must halt its policy of requiring Central American asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico pending US approval. The ruling from the San Francisco-based appeals court temporarily […]

Man Who Sold Pirate IPTV Must Pay £521,000 or Face Five More Years in Prison

March 1, 2020 World Justice News 0

A man who was sentenced in 2018 to 4.5 years in prison for selling pirate IPTV devices to pubs and clubs has been ordered to pay £520,000 to the public purse. Failure to come up […]

Australia

Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison

October 26, 2026 0

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol. Andre McKechnie argued […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

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Month: March 2020