The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Pakistan to immediately revoke a law that increases the prison term for defamation on social media from three to five years, arguing that it further criminalizes freedom of expression in the country.
A Swiss court dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit brought by the sister of a Ukrainian oligarch against the country’s immigration authorities who refused to naturalise her over doubts about the origin of her wealth.
Just a few days after reporters revealed that three Macedonians, among them a former deputy prime minister, may have had millions stashed in Switzerland, prosecutors in Skopje said they will look into the revelations about the accounts at Credit Suisse.
Mexican authorities arrested a suspected member of the Los Ardillos criminal group, seized 11 stolen vehicles, 28 kilos of marijuana, weapons, cartridges, and three Bengal tigers, the local Prosecutor’s Office said.
The corruption trial of former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso and his wife began on Monday, with the prosecutor arguing that the couple received millions of dollars in bribes from the Venezuelan government and the graft-ridden Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The U.S. has banned the import of antiquities and historical art from Afghanistan over fears of looting, the U.S. The Department of State announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Interpol has unveiled a new initiative to crack down on sexual exploitation of the world’s most vulnerable and impoverished people by humanitarian aid workers.
A Croatian court ordered a one-month detention for the country’s former construction minister who has been accused of illegally distributing 2.6 million kuna (US$392,000) in grants to entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities who did not qualify for subsidies.
A Brazilian court sentenced 15 members of an organized crime group - among them a former police officer - for having trafficked tonnes of marijuana from Paraguay, the Brazilian Prosecutor’s office said.
A majority of Members of the European Parliament supported on Tuesday the initiative to blacklist Switzerland as a high-risk country for money laundering following the release of an international investigation that revealed Credit Suisse’s shady business practices.