An Argentinian judge on Wednesday initiated the investigation process into Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while he is in Argentina for the G-20 Summit. Federal Judge Ariel Lijo agreed to the Human Rights Watch’s request to determine whether Yemeni and Saudi legal authorities were investigating the prince for crimes against humanity, including his [...]
Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Sunday confirming that the former president Alan García requested political asylum in the Uruguayan embassy just hours after a judge prohibited him from leaving the country. Garcia allegedly accepted bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for government contracts to build the Metro Line [...]
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against a Russian firm accused of interfering with the 2016 presidential race can move forward. This ruling follows Concord Management and Consulting, LLC’s (Concord) indictment back in February. Concord was charged with conspiring to defraud the United States by funding an organization that entered [...]
The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on Monday sentenced two people to death for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War. The two convicts, Liakat Ali and Aminul Islam, went into hiding after an arrest warrant was issued against them in May 2016 for allegedly aiding Pakistani troops and murdering over 100 people. [...]
Abraham Edgardo Ortega, the former executive director of financial planning at Petróleo de Venezuela, SA pleaded guilty Wednesday in US federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering. In a hearing in a Florida district court, Ortega admitted to accepting over $17 million worth of bribes as payment for allowing a ring of former Venezuelan officials and [...]
The Supreme Court of Spain on Thursday ordered 18 former politicians to stand trial for their involvement in the region’s independence referendum proposed by parliament last year. Out of the 18 pro-independence leaders, nine are being held in prison and are expected to stand trial for rebellion, a charge that carries a 30 year prison [...]
The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Thursday overturned the prison term for the country’s former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The Maldives Criminal Court had convicted Gayoom in June of obstruction of justice for refusing to turn his cellphone over to police during an investigation into his involvement with a plan to overthrow the government. [...]
An Oregon federal judge on Monday ruled that a group of young Americans can move forward with a lawsuit against the US government for climate change inaction but that President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant in the case. The suit was initially filed in 2015 by 21 young people and Our Children’s [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday that bars the Trump administration from discontinuing a program that gave Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants from certain countries. These protections were signed into law by former president George Bush in 1990. They allowed immigrants from [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Sunday that will require public corporations to include more women on their boards of directors. State Senators Toni Atkins and Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced Senate Bill 826, citing a report that one-fourth of California’s companies have no women sitting on their boards. According to their research, achieving gender parity [...]
