Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to seven years in prison after he was found guilty on Monday of owning assets “disproportionate to his known sources of income.” An anti-corruption court in the country’s capital Islamabad imposed a fine of USD $25 million on Sharif. It also disqualified him from holding public [...]
An order issued by India’s federal government on Thursday has authorized 10 of the country’s security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt information from any computer resource. The move has drawn criticism from opposition political parties amid fears of heightened government surveillance infringing on citizens’ right to privacy. Issued by the interior ministry [...]
The High Court of the Indian capital of New Delhi on Monday convicted Sajjan Kumar, a former member of the federal parliament, for conspiracy and murder during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom and awarded him imprisonment for “the remainder of his natural life.” It is the first time that a powerful politician has been held guilty [...]
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), a judicial body that adjudicates environmental matters in India, on Friday imposed a penalty of 500 million Indian Rupees (approximately USD $7 million) on the state government of Karnataka for failing to protect lakes in its capital city of Bangalore. The tribunal also directed the government to deposit 5 billion [...]
The UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, said Thursday that she is “gravely concerned” about the number of cases related to sexual violence against women and girls in Nepal. She cited the rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta as an example of a case that was “referred to the police or [...]
A district court in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Tuesday handed the death penalty to a man convicted of participating in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. This is the first death sentence to be awarded in any case related to the 1984 violence, which saw 3,000 Sikhs killed across northern India in the aftermath [...]
