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Lawmakers visit students Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk as they face deportation

April 23, 2025 World Justice News 0

A team of Democratic lawmakers have met two foreign students who are currently in immigration detention in Louisiana as the White House seeks to deport them. The group visited two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) […]

Anger over sentencing of boy, 10, for urinating in Mississippi car park

December 17, 2023 World Justice News 0

A boy who urinated in a US car park has been given three months’ probation and must write an essay on the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Quantavious Eason, 10, was arrested in Mississippi after police caught […]

Man who escaped Mississippi prison months before release gets 40-year sentence

August 1, 2023 World Justice News 0

A 21-year-old man who decided to escape prison with just a few months of his sentence left has been jailed for 40 years. Shunekndrick Huffman fled Central Mississippi Correctional Facility on 25 August last year, […]

Boy, 11, ‘shot in the chest’ by police officer he had called for help

May 26, 2023 World Justice News 0

An 11-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer has returned home from hospital after almost a week of treatment. Aderrien Murry spent five days in hospital with a collapsed lung, lacerated liver, and […]

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US Supreme Court: Top US judges signal support for abortion limits

December 1, 2021 World Justice News 0

The US Supreme Court appears poised to accept a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. In a hearing into the case on Wednesday, […]

South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available

June 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad. A new law requires inmates on death […]

Mississippi abortion: US Supreme Court to hear major abortion case

May 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion in a major case that will be closely watched across the US. The verdict could upend the legal right […]

US immigration: ICE arrests nearly 700 people in Mississippi raids

August 8, 2019 World Justice News 0

US immigration officials have arrested almost 700 people after a series of raids in the state of Mississippi. The co-ordinated operations targeted workers at seven agricultural processing plants who allegedly did not have proper documentation. […]

1959 racial slaying of Mississippi teen could get fresh look

August 21, 2018 zoshinuk 0

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Associated Press CORINTH, Miss. – Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and […]

US boy, 9, ‘kills sister, 13, over controller’

March 19, 2018 World Justice News 0

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say. They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

Human Rights

‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

March 28, 2026 0

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity”. Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western […]

Human Rights

Leading anti‑racism activist in Tunisia jailed for eight years

March 21, 2026 0

A Tunisian court has sentenced human rights activist Saadia Mosbah to eight years in prison and fined her £26,000 ($35,000). Mosbah, who leads the anti-racism group Mnèmty, had been charged with money laundering and illicit […]