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by Danny KEMP Ukraine has identified several thousand suspected war crimes in the eastern Donbas region where Russian forces are pressing their offensive, Kyiv’s chief prosecutor said Tuesday. The cases in the industrial region are among some 15,000 across Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on February 24, prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova said. “Of course we started a few thousand cases about what we see in Donbas,” Venediktova told a news conference in The Hague as she […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has asked the prosecutor whose altercation with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority traffic enforcers went viral over the Internet to respond to the complaint filed against her. “We asked prosecutor (Christine Villamora) Estepa to comment on the MMDA complaint, similar to a show-cause order. She will submit shortly,” Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday, Aug. 29. According to Guevarra, the DOJ will then “decide if we should dismiss the […]
(Eagle News) — The couple who figured in a viral video arguing with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority commander Bong Nebrija and traffic enforcers who had only tried to issue a ticket to the woman for illegal parking has apologized. “We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the MMDA enforcers especially to Col. (Nebrija) and Constable Azures. We ask for your understanding as emotions got the best of us,” the woman said […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of the Ombudsman is asking the help of the Philippine National Police to investigate the killing of an Assistant Prosecutor who was attacked and murdered by a still unknown assailant on Monday, June 4, in Quezon City. The victim was identified as Assistant Prosecutor, Atty. Madonna Joy Tanyag, of the Office of the Ombudsman, and a resident of Concepcion, Marikina City. Tanyag was four months pregnant when she was […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s recently sworn-in Vice Prosecutor Katherine Haringhton attempted to enter the country’s Public Ministry on Thursday (July 06) after the Supreme Court heard a petition to remove dissident state prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who has expressed criticism of President Nicolas Maduro. Ortega, the main challenger to Maduro from within the ruling socialist movement during three months of opposition protests, said she would not recognize legal proceedings against her by an “unconstitutional and […]
SELANGOR STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — Lawyers representing two women charged with killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader said on Friday (June 16) that some of the documents they had received from prosecutors would be sent to experts in Denmark and other countries for further assessment. The prosecutors handed over a set of 44 documents, including toxicology, autopsy, and arrest reports, the suspects’ statements and photographs, to the women’s lawyers earlier in the day, […]
ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey has removed more than 4,000 judges and prosecutors on suspicion of links to United States-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for orchestrating last year’s failed coup, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday (May 26). In a speech in Ankara, Bozdag said the investigation has been completed and the judiciary had been cleared of supporters of Gulen. More than 100,000 people in the police, judiciary, civil service and […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Prosecutors in South Korea will seek an arrest warrant for ousted president Park Geun-Hye, they said Monday, days after questioning her over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down. Park, 65, had her removal from office confirmed by the country’s top court earlier this month, ending her executive immunity. Prosecutors said in a statement they had “concluded that it is in line with the laws and […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s special prosecutor’s office said on Thursday (January 19) it had not decided whether to make another arrest warrant request for Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee after a court rejected its first. Earlier in the day, a South Korean court dismissed an arrest warrant against Lee, the head of the country’s largest conglomerate, amid a graft scandal that has led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. The […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s special prosecutor’s office said on Monday (January 16) it was seeking a warrant to arrest the head of Samsung Group, the country’s largest conglomerate, accusing him of paying multi-million dollar bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye. Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee was questioned for 22 straight hours last week as investigators probed a corruption scandal that resulted in parliament impeaching Park last month. The special […]
by Alex PIGMAN BRUSSELE, Belgium (AFP) — A man with a fake suicide belt was arrested after a bomb scare at a shopping centre triggered a major anti-terror operation in central Brussels on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Belgium remains on a high state of alert after Islamic State-claimed bomb attacks in March left 32 dead at the airport and on the metro. Tuesday’s incident began at about 6:30 am (0430 GMT) after a report of a […]
MEAUX, France (AFP) — Discrimination charges against Euro Disney over job adverts that called only for “European” candidates should be dropped, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The trial was triggered by a complaint from anti-racism groups nine years ago over job adverts in the commuter paper 20 Minutes in 2006, looking for “cast members” but stipulating that they had to be “of European nationality”. The prosecutors said that it had not been established that the discriminatory […]
