Tag: justice
the last day of defense arguments
In Avignon, at the Pelicot trial, the pleadings ended on Friday December 13 at midday. It marks the end of this trial which has lasted for almost four months. Dominique…
McKinsey to pay $650 million to avoid criminal trial
US consultancy McKinsey has agreed to pay $650 million in a deferred prosecution agreement with the US government to avoid a criminal trial for its role in the opioid crisis.…
Brantford police officer not guilty of obstructing justice
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Published Dec 12, 2024 • 3 minute read The Expositor A Brantford police officer was found not guilty on Wednesday of advising a fellow…
Li Tie, ex-China coach sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption
The former coach of the Chinese national football team, Li Tie, was sentenced Friday to twenty years in prison for having paid or received bribes for years to fix matches,…
two out of three prisoners reoffend within five years, according to a study
In France, while the trend of the outgoing government is to create new prisons and make greater use of detention sentences, a study by the Ministry of Justice reveals an…
faced with the desire for revenge, the need for justice
The country today seems to be hanging by a thread. After the appointment of Mohammed al-Bashir as Prime Minister by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, he is awaiting the composition…
In Argentina, justice dismisses the case for French rugby players accused of rape
After five months of proceedings, the Argentine courts ruled on the dismissal of the case, that is to say the abandonment of the proceedings against Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou,…
The city of Paris grants honorary citizenship to Paul Watson
More than four months after his arrest in Greenland, whale defender Paul Watson remains in detention. He is being held in prison in Nuuk while Denmark decides whether or not…
Charles Onana and his publisher sentenced for contesting the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
The Franco-Cameroonian political scientist and essayist, Charles Onana, was found guilty by the French courts of “complicity in public contestation of the existence of a crime against humanity, in this…
25 feminicides since the start of the year, a rising toll
In Tunisia, it is with the sad assessment of the increase in feminicides that the sixteen days of activism campaign against violence against women ends on Tuesday, December 10. This…