The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, Slovakia ruled on Friday that businessman Marian Kočner was not guilty of the 2018 murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusinrova. The court ruled, however, that Alena Zsuzsová–an associate of Kočner–was guilty and sentenced him to 25 years prison. The International Press Institute (IPI) reported [...]

An Australian corruption watchdog urged the Northern Territory (NT) government on Thursday to audit personnel records of public officers with certain role qualifications. The move follows findings of corruption within the recruitment processes in the public sector. The NT Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) released the findings of an independent investigation, concluding that a public [...]

The Paris Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. Following the decision, Sarkozy’s legal team denied the charges and stated they plan to appeal the matter to France’s highest court of appeals, the Court of Cassation. As [...]

In a joint statement released Saturday, international leaders at this weekend’s G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan called for the development of international standards that will govern new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. The panel argued that current international guidelines have not kept apace with the rapid growth of AI, and stressed that there must be greater [...]

The UN is set to sanction Australia for failing to meet its international human rights obligations. On Saturday, in an exclusive interview with The Saturday Paper, vice-chair of the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), Aisha Shujune Muhammad, said that Australia has failed to implement the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) West and Central Africa released a series of reports Saturday revealing a complex trafficking web across the Sahel region of Africa as part of its Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment (TOCTA) Sahel project. The reports show the efforts of organized crime throughout the Sahel to smuggle [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Saturday claiming that Pakistani police have carried out mass arrests of over 4,000 people, including opposition party members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), in the wake of protests over the detention of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. This statement has been corroborated by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan [...]

The former supervisor of an infamous Bosnian prison camp during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s was arrested in the Boston area this week on charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship by making false claims of persecution. Kemal Mrndzic, now a resident of the Boston suburb of Swampscott, is accused by US prosecutors of having [...]

An Australian police force is launching an internal investigation after police officers tasered a 95-year-old woman at an elderly care facility. In a statement released last week, the New South Wales Police Force confirmed that “ critical incident investigation has been launched after an elderly woman sustained injuries during an interaction with police at an [...]

The Nebraska legislature passed a contentious bill on Friday, implementing a 12-week abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors. Nebraska’s new abortion ban, its first since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling last year, reduces the state’s current abortion limit from around 20 weeks of pregnancy to 12 [...]