Belarusian authorities have sentenced blogger Roman Protasevich to eight years in a penal colony nearly two years after its jets hijacked a passenger plane flying over the country and forced it to land in Minsk just to capture him.

Authorities seized over 11,000 stolen artifacts at European border checkpoints last year, arrested 60 suspects, and opened about 130 investigations in the seventh phase of the so-called Pandora operation, which was launched in 2016.

Chinese authorities are using a phone search program to target and intimidate the Uyghur Muslim minority and other Muslim residents in the Xinjiang region, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The European Commission presented a new anti-corruption package on Wednesday, which includes a proposal to extend the EU sanctions regime beyond human rights violations to also encompass corruption acts committed anywhere in the world.

The U.S. indicted a Russian national for allegedly creating and managing the Try2Check platform, a cybercrime hub that allowed criminals to verify the validity of stolen credit cards before making luxury purchases at the expense of their owners.

Several outlets in Bulgaria and Romania have launched a smear campaign against reporters from OCCRP and its partners, claiming they were involved in a plot to kill Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor, Ivan Geshev.

Nigeria's president-elect, Bola Tinubu, whose victory in February is being challenged in court, has been keeping part of his wealth in the United Kingdom, where he and his close associates own at least 20 properties that were mostly acquired when Tinubu was the governor of Lagos State.

Bed makers in the United Kingdom have urged customers to be cautious when purchasing mattresses from unauthorized retailers, including “back of the van” sellers and certain online stores where the origins of the items sold and the name of the producer tends to be unclear.

Police in Germany, Italy and Belgium arrested 132 suspected members of the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta on Wednesday morning in what Eurojust described as "the largest-ever coordinated hit against Italian organized crime."

Police on three continents closed during a joint operation a dark web marketplace called “Monopoly Market,” arrested 288 people suspected of having used it to buy or sell drugs and seized cash and virtual currency worth US$53.4 million.