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Olympiakos soccer boss should be jailed pending trial

September 6, 2016 World Justice News 0

Greece – Prosecutor Stamatis Daskalopoulos has asked for Olympiakos’s boss Vangelis Marinakis to stand trial over charges of establishing a criminal gang and match-fixing. Marinakis is one of dozens to be implicated in the case. Daskalopoulos […]

Man was unaware it was illegal to use someone else’s passport

September 6, 2016 World Justice News 0

Malta – A man has been sentenced to six months in jail for attempting to use someone else’s passport. Mansour Muftah, 28, from Tajoura in north-western Libya claimed that he didn’t know it was unlawful to use […]

Anjem Choudary jailed for inciting followers to support Islamic State

September 6, 2016 World Justice News 0

Britain’s most notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for inviting his followers to support Islamic State terrorists. The 49-year-old lawyer turned radical cleric swore allegiance to the caliphate leader Abu […]

Dennis Oland’s lawyers file Supreme Court bail appeal

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

Dennis Oland’s lawyers intend to argue that granting the New Brunswick businessman bail while he appeals his second-degree murder conviction would not undermine public confidence in the justice system. They argue the public would see his […]

Royal Marine reservist charged with possessing a sawn-off shotgun, 1,400 rounds and seven high explosive grenades

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

Martin Shannon, 43, of Hythe in Southampton and a Royal Marine reservist, has appeared in court charged with firearms offences – including alleged possession of seven grenades. The serving Royal Marine reservist was charged with offences […]

Charges dismissed against former Jersey City Police Chief

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

A judge has dismissed all charges against former Jersey City Police Chief Robert Cowan in a lawsuit filed by a city police officer who was charged with drunken driving in 2013 and claimed his arrest […]

Islamist Party Figure Executed in Bangladesh

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Saturday executed Mir Quasem Ali, 63, a leading figure in an Islamist party for committing atrocities during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Since 2013, five Jamaat leaders have […]

Capobianco murder trial put on hold while jurors questioned

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

WAILUKU – Testimony in the murder trial of Steven Capobianco was put on hold Friday while jurors were questioned one-by-one about whether they had talked to others about testimony and evidence in the case.

Actor-Musician Drake Bell Sentenced to Jail

September 3, 2016 World Justice News 0

The actor-musician Drake Bell has been sentenced to 96 hours behind bars for his second DUI. The “Drake & Josh” star Bell was arrested for DUI in December 2015. He was pulled over by police […]

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, […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

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Olympiakos soccer boss should be jailed pending trial

Man was unaware it was illegal to use someone else’s passport

Anjem Choudary jailed for inciting followers to support Islamic State

Dennis Oland’s lawyers file Supreme Court bail appeal

Royal Marine reservist charged with possessing a sawn-off shotgun, 1,400 rounds and seven high explosive grenades

Charges dismissed against former Jersey City Police Chief

Islamist Party Figure Executed in Bangladesh

Capobianco murder trial put on hold while jurors questioned

Actor-Musician Drake Bell Sentenced to Jail