A day after 100,000 supporters of Romania’s Social Democratic party protested against what they see as a misuse of power by anti-corruption prosecutors, 3,000 people gathered at the same spot on Sunday for an opposing rally, the Associated Press reported.
Saudi Arabia’s counter-terrorism measures are violating human rights and the kingdom’s legislation is criminalising peaceful expression of opinion, assembly and association, as well as freedom of thought and religion, a report by the UN’s special rapporteur on anti-terrorism says.
The UN Security Council sanctioned six people on Thursday for involvement in human trafficking, a year after CNN footage showing smugglers in Libya auctioning migrants off as slaves sparked worldwide outrage.
A Greek court sent four leaders of an international migrant smuggling ring to jail for 1,400 years after police found and rescued 112 migrants from a cave and farm buildings in southern Crete a year ago, the UK National Crime Agency announced on Wednesday.
Belgian police detained 13 people as part of an international tennis match-fixing investigation on Tuesday.
Leaders of INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reasserted their commitment to jointly combat transnational crime by sharing data, countering foreign terrorists together and fostering inter-regional law enforcement cooperation.
Dozens of Georgian gang members and four mafia bosses with ties to major Caucasus gangs faced charges of being involved in an organized crime group, money laundering and criminal conspiracy on Monday, Le Parisien reported.
A Swiss lawyer will spend two months in jail after telling British and US authorities that his clients, two Russian oil traders, violated sanctions on Iran, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
Pakistani journalist Gul Bukhari, who publicly criticized the military for allegedly interfering in politics, was freed on Wednesday after being abducted several hours earlier, Radio Free Europe reported.
Israeli and French authorities arrested four suspected leaders of a crime group responsible for impersonating executives of companies and ordering employees to wire company money to bank accounts owned by the group, Europol reported Monday.