Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, pled guilty on Friday to acting within the US as an illegal agent of a foreign power without first notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 951. Yeo pled guilty via videoconference before the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Yeo admitted [...]
A US federal judge for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction blocking parts of Tennessee’s so-called “heartbeat” abortion ban on Friday. The ban, signed into law by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on July 13, would ban abortions performed after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. Heartbeats can be detected as early as [...]
The Indian Government has issued a formal Government Sanction Letter to grant Permanent Commission (PC) to women officers in the Indian Army. The letter, written by the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, permits the grant of commissions to women across the entire Indian Army. A permanent commission allows the officers to work until they retire. [...]
The US Senate has passed a bill to rename US military bases named after officers of the Confederate Army defeated in the Civil War. If signed into law, the legislation would affect some 10 US Army installations located in the American South, most of which were given their current designations between the end of World [...]
UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell warned US officials Friday that unnecessary and disproportionate use force by authorities in response to Black Lives Matter protests violates international human rights standards. Throssell said in a statement that: Peaceful demonstrations in cities in the US, such as Portland, really must be able to continue without those participating [...]
A Russian court has sentenced Yuri Dmitriev, a Gulag historian, to prison for allegedly sexually abusing his adopted daughter. The judge sentenced Dmitriev to prison Wednesday for a period of 3 years and 6 months. Dmitriev denies the allegation. Dmitriev is head of the Karelian Memorial Society, which is part of the larger International Historical [...]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and his wife Kellie May Chauvin have been charged with nine counts of tax fraud. The complaint filed Wednesday by the State of Minnesota alleges that Derek Chauvin and his wife filed a late tax return in 2014 and failed to file tax returns in 2016, 2017 and 2018. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 28-page report Thursday highlighting unconstitutional uses of force occurring within the Alabama prison system. The report indicates that Alabama prisons experience understaffing among correctional officers and inmate overcrowding. These dynamics cause tension and incidents of violence between inmates, which ultimately leads to excessive use of force by [...]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a police accountability bill Thursday in response to the protests over the killing of George Floyd. House Bill No.1 included five main provisions: clearly defining when police are justified in using deadly force, providing the attorney general’s office the power to prosecute law enforcement officers involved in civilian deaths, eliminating [...]
A Hamburg juvenile court convicted a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard on Thursday on 5,232 counts of accessory to murder and one count of accessory to attempted murder. Bruno Dey has been given a two-year suspended sentence, bringing to a close the trial that had begun in October. While Dey apologized to the victims and [...]
