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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — One of Hong Kong’s best-known rights activists was arrested by the city’s national security police on Tuesday over alleged witness tampering, a police source told AFP. Albert Ho, 71, formerly led the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance, which organized an annual candlelight vigil for more than three decades to mourn the victims of China’s bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square in 1989. The lawyer is already facing up to a decade in […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Authorities in Peru arrested three police generals and three other people on Monday for alleged involvement in the corruption case against ousted president Pedro Castillo, the interior ministry said. A “mega-operation” netted the six who are suspected of involvement of “irregular promotions” in the police force, said a ministry statement. Three of the six are active police generals suspected of having approved promotions, with Castillo’s alleged blessing, in exchange for money. […]
London, United Kingdom (AFP) The BBC said on Sunday one of its journalists in China had been arrested and beaten by police while covering protests against the country’s zero-Covid policy. Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. “The BBC is extremely concerned about the treatment of our journalist Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering the protests […]
Washington, United States | AFP | The FBI announced Wednesday that it has broken up a nationwide catalytic converter theft ring that amassed staggering assets of more than half a billion dollars. A total of 21 people were arrested and charged in the US-wide bust, according to an FBI statement. “They made hundreds of millions of dollars… on the backs of thousands of innocent car owners,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said. Catalytic converters reduce […]
A statement on the arrest of Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business: https://t.co/XibRhhSIXM pic.twitter.com/xdIQk1yhoO — Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) (@ihrb) August 25, 2022 Yangon, Myanmar (AFP) Myanmar authorities have arrested Britain’s former ambassador to the country and her husband, a prominent artist and one-time political prisoner, for allegedly violating immigration laws, the junta said on Thursday. Vicky Bowman, who served as envoy from 2002 to 2006, was detained for […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot — dismissed as fictional by many — to oust her rival and predecessor Evo Morales. Anez, who has been held in pre-trial detention since March 2021, has consistently denounced what she calls political persecution. The former interim leader will serve 10 years in a women’s prison […]
by Michelle FITZPATRICK A 21-year-old gunman opened fire at a secondary school in northern Germany on Thursday, badly injuring a female member of staff before being arrested, police said. The incident happened at the Lloyd Gymnasium in the centre of Bremerhaven. School shootings are relatively rare in Germany, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe. But a recent spate of incidents has rattled the population. “The armed person has been […]
(Eagle News) – Media personality Ramon “Mon” Tulfo was arrested for cyber libel on Wednesday morning, May 18, and detained at the Manila Police District headquarters. Tulfo, a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist, was arrested at around 10:30 a.m. According to the police, the arrest order was issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 24 Judge Maria Victoria Soriano-Villadolid for the violation of Section R (C) (4) of Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — A Pakistani father accused of killing his week-old daughter by shooting her five times because he wanted his firstborn to be a boy has been arrested, police said Thursday. In the deeply patriarchal country, a son is often believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters, and girls and women face widespread violence. Newborn Jannat Fatima was killed on Sunday in the city of Mianwali, in central Punjab province, […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) – Vietnam on Wednesday arrested a high-profile environmentalist known for taking on the energy industry on suspicion of tax evasion, state media said. Nguy Thi Khanh, 46, has been one of the few voices in Vietnam prepared to challenge plans to increase coal power to fuel economic development. Her organisation GreenID, Vietnam’s best-known environmental NGO, convinced the government to reduce some of its coal targets and sparked a national conversation about rising […]
Among those arrested was Filipino mastermind of heist group who next targeted stealing from Gcash accounts (Eagle News) — Five individuals, two of whom are Nigerian nationals, have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation for their involvement in the “Mark Nagoyo Heist Group”, a group responsible for hacking BDO affecting more than 700 customers last December. NBI Officer-In-Charge (OIC) Director Eric B. Distor identified the five suspects as Nigerian nationals Ifesinachi Fountain […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police announced the arrest of three men after a car exploded in front of Liverpool Women’s Hospital, in the city centre, killing one man and injuring another on Sunday morning. The three men, aged 29, 26 and 21, were arrested in Liverpool’s Kensington district under the anti-terrorism laws, Greater Manchester Police said in a tweet. The man killed in the blast has not yet been identified, the statement said. […]
