Several hundred journalists marched in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on Saturday in protest of the misuse of lawsuits against journalists as a means to pressure and censor them, the Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) said on Monday.
An Egyptian military appeals court on Sunday upheld a five-year sentence for Hisham Genena, the former head of the Egyptian Anti-Corruption Authority, over an interview Genena gave to the Huffington Post in which he spoke of secret documents damaging to Egypt’s army and current regime.
Corruption and torture are decisively linked, and members of the Council of Europe need to move swiftly and effectively to “eradicate these threats to democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” the organization said last week.
Royal Dutch Shell is to be prosecuted in the Netherlands over alleged corruption in a US$1.3 billion Nigerian oil deal, a case already standing trial in Italy.
Italian police said they arrested on Saturday one of the country’s most dangerous fugitives, Camorra boss Marco Di Lauro, who was on the run for 14 years.
Andreas Neocleous, the founder of a Cypriot law firm which was found guilty of bribing a former deputy attorney general, acquired a stake in the Cyprus Mail, one of the few remaining independent media on the island. Almost immediately, the paper deleted its coverage of the bribery conviction from its website.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed new legislation to punish illegal enrichment just two days after Parliament launched an impeachment process against him for graft.
Israeli authorities announced on Thursday they will indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges but Netanyahu labeled the move an opposition scheme intended to force him out of the running in the upcoming election.
Ukrainian lawmakers have launched the process to impeach President Petro Poroshenko following an eruptive media report linking him to a corruption scandal involving the President’s friends who have allegedly stolen from the country’s defense industry.
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych may have funneled 3.7 million euros (US$4.2 million) of bribe money through the Lithuanian branch of a Swedish bank, concealing it as royalty for a book he claimed he wrote about himself, according to Swedish TV station SVT.