BANGKOK — State prosecutors in Thailand said Tuesday they have revived an investigation into whether former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra almost nine years ago violated the law against defaming the monarch, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Thaksin had been charged in 2016 with violating the law on royal defamation — … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump told a judge Friday that defense lawyers had painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and had unfairly sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials who were simply trying to do their jobs. The comments came in … Read more
A Russian court in Siberia on Friday sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for shooting a military enlistment officer, while prosecutors in St. Petersburg asked for a 28-year sentence for a woman charged in the bombing of a cafe last April that killed a prominent military blogger, reports said. Both cases underscore the … Read more
Japanese prosecutors made their first arrest Sunday in connection with a major political slush funds scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s already unpopular government. Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office apprehended former vice-education minister Yoshitaka Ikeda on suspicion of failing to report fundraising proceeds he received from his faction within the governing Liberal Democratic … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — an attack that he has admitted to joining. Ray Epps, who is scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday, pleaded guilty … Read more
Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the United States Courthouse in New York City, July 26, 2023. Amr Alfiky | Reuters Prosecutors have decided not to pursue a second trial against disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. In a note to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Friday, the U.S. government explained that the decision to forego … Read more
The state of Nevada is pushing back on Duane “Keefe D” Davis’ request to be let out of jail ahead of the trial … because they insist Tupac Shakur’s alleged killer is just too dangerous. For those unaware, Keefe D’s lawyers asked a judge last week to release him from custody on his own recognizance … Read more
The husband of a young Texas mother found dead in her home staged her murder to look like a suicide – but the woman’s final diary entry, alongside post-mortem toxicology reports, led to his life sentence for her death. Joel Pellot, a nurse anesthetist, dialed 911 early on Sept. 22, 2020 to report that his … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Monday called for the resignation of the state prosecutor in Guanajuato in light of the state’s high levels of violence, a day after gunmen killed 12 people at a holiday party there. Guanajuato has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and local gangs backed … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — A court in Russia on Thursday overturned a fine handed to a veteran human rights advocate for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sent Oleg Orlov’s case back to prosecutors, who have sought to imprison him for three years instead. Orlov, co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group … Read more