Japan court orders ‘Moonies’ Church to be stripped of legal recognition
The Church is accused of pressuring followers into making life-ruining donations, and blamed for child neglect among its members — although it has denied any wrongdoing.
Category: Crime & Justice
South Korea Court Reinstates Impeached PM Han as Acting President
The court ruled five-to-one against Han’s impeachment, with two judges arguing the case should not have made it to court as lawmakers did not have a super majority to impeach him in the first place.
China Says Ex-Engineer To Be Executed for Spying
The man, surnamed Liu, “secretly copied, duplicated, and sold a large volume of state secrets to a foreign espionage and intelligence agency”, China’s Ministry of State Security said in a post to its official WeChat account.
13 Reportedly Killed in Israeli Strikes Overnight in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned late Tuesday that the strikes were “only the beginning” and that future negotiations with Hamas “will take place only under fire”.
Texas Arrests Assistant of Midwife Accused of Illegal Abortions
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that a 48-year-old midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, was arrested for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Houston area.
Georgia’s Ex-Leader Saakashvili to Spend 12.5 Years in Prison
Saakashvili, 57, was sentenced in absentia in 2018 to six years in prison for abuse of office and, last week, he received a nine-year sentence for misspending public funds from the Caucasus country.
HRW Orders Kenya To Investigate Mutilated Bodies Dumped In Quarry
There was shock and disgust last July in the east African country when 10 butchered female corpses, and other unidentified body parts, were recovered, mostly by volunteers, from an abandoned quarry in the Mukuru slum in the capital Nairobi.
Games Industry Still a Hostile Environment For Many Women
Big names in gaming such as France’s Ubisoft (publisher of the “Assassin’s Creed” saga) or US-based Activision Blizzard (“Call of Duty”) have seen women come forward about sexist behaviour in the workplace in recent years.
Gang’s Grenade Attack in Colombian Capital Kills 3
The grenade attack was in response to a conflict between “two local organized criminal groups” that are fighting over turf, Bogota police commander Giovanni Cristancho told reporters near the scene.
Hungary Femicide Sparks Outcry on Gender Violence
The killing of the Japanese woman in late January was later declared a murder, but only after an uproar when a women’s rights organisation revealed that the 43-year-old had reached out to them about her abusive ex-husband.
