12 May 2022 21:02 Against the background of considerable political tensions between Mali and France, a court in Bamako summoned French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Le Drian’s son Thomas is also under investigation. Both are scheduled to audition on June 20th. Source: AFP © DOMINIQUE FAGET An investigating magistrate in Mali, West Africa, has […]
12 May 2022 18:14 Several thousand people gathered at the funeral service for Shireen Abu Akleh in Ramallah on Thursday. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli forces shot dead the journalist in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Source: AFP © Abbas Momani Thousands gathered Thursday to mourn Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in […]
A year after the emergency landing in Minsk, a Belarusian court sentenced Russian Sofia Sapega to six years in prison. Her friend Roman Protasevich, founder of the Telegram channel Nexta, is now free and has distanced himself from his opposition activities. A Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania had to make an emergency landing in […]
According to a draft of an expected US Supreme Court ruling, judges could overturn a 1970s ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Abortion rights in the United States could be severely curtailed, according to a Supreme Court document leaked to US online portal and newspaper Politico, shocking the entire country. According to the draft judgment, published […]
20 Apr 2022 12:29 pm According to the court ruling, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges after a protracted legal battle. More information coming soon. By blocking RT, the EU aims to silence a critical, non-pro-Western source of information. And not only with regard to […]
8 Apr 2022 12:10 p.m The deputy parliamentary speaker had refused to deal with the motion of no confidence. After consultation with the government, Pakistan’s president then dissolved parliament and announced new elections. However, the Supreme Court ruled that these decisions were unconstitutional. Pakistan’s five-member Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld both a decision by […]
29 Mar 2022 7:27 p.m by Susan Bonath While the fronts between supporters and opponents of mandatory vaccinations of any kind against COVID-19 are becoming increasingly hard and the debates are escalating into religious battles, the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) will be hearing on Friday, April 1st, about the mandatory corona vaccination for Bundeswehr soldiers. […]
29 Mar 2022 7:48 am Russia had classified the US group Meta as “extremist” and banned it last week. A Moscow district court has now published the reasons for the decision. The court emphasized that the use of Facebook and Instagram is not prohibited. Source: AFP © KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV The rationale for a Moscow district […]
29 Mar 2022 07:09 am In Moscow, a court lifted director Kirill Serebrennikov’s suspended sentence. His criminal record was also erased. The defense’s motion to have the suspended sentence lifted before the end of the suspended sentence was thus granted. Moscow’s Khamovnichesky court has reversed the decision to impose a suspended sentence on filmmaker Kirill […]