Iran “bears responsibility” for Mahsa Amini’s “unlawful death” in 2022 that ignited nationwide protests, a U.N. report said Friday. The pronouncement came from a report by the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which said that Tehran used “unnecessary and disproportionate use of lethal force” to repel protestors in the aftermath of the death. Amini was […]
The decision to postpone this month’s elections in Senegal is against the country’s constitution, the country’s top court has ruled. The Constitutional Court annulled President Macky Sall‘s decree and a contentious bill passed by parliament moving the vote to December. Widespread protests have gripped the West African country, once considered a bastion of democracy in […]
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage broke the law, his party said. It was the third ruling against Khan this week and […]
A district judge in England has thrown out a public order charge against climate campaigner Greta Thunberg after police attempted to impose “unlawful” conditions during an environment protest. The 21-year-old, from Sweden, was arrested during a demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair, London, on October 17th as oil executives met inside for a conference. […]
Jan. 25—A Middletown man was sentenced Wednesday to up to five years of probation with intensive supervision after he pleaded guilty last month to felony charges for having sexual conduct with a 13-year-old girl last spring in Dayton. Tyler Adam Hollon, 21, pleaded guilty in December in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to two counts […]