Crime & Justice
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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FBI Arrests Soldier Accused of Selling US Army Intel to China
Jian Zhao, an active-duty army supply sergeant stationed at a military base in Washington state, was accused of gathering classified hard drives and a computer taken from the US government to sell to unspecified individuals…
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UN Security Council Warns Against Sudan Rival Government
They warned such a move would “risk exacerbating the ongoing conflict in Sudan, fragmenting the country, and worsening an already dire humanitarian situation”.
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UAE Rejects Appeals of 53 Sentenced in Mass Trial
The State Security Chamber of the Federal Supreme Court rejected the appeals on Tuesday, state news agency WAM said, following the defendants’ July sentencing for “terrorist” links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
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One-Year-Old Among Those Raped In The Ongoing Sudan Civil War
The report highlights that mass sexual violence has been widely documented as a weapon of war in the nearly two-year conflict. UNICEF’s findings reveal that 221 rape cases against children have been officially reported since…
