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Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan arrived at court in the country's capital Islamabad on March 18, 2023, days after a failed attempt to arrest him led to clashes between his supporters and police. Earlier the same day, police stormed Khan’s home in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested dozens of his supp…
The 1500 inhabitants of Pari Island say they have not contributed to the climate crisis, yet, they are suffering the consequences. Under current CO2-emission levels, environmentalists say most of the 42-hectare (103-acre) island could sink by 2050 because of rising sea levels. Environmental litigation against govern…
Family members of victims of the deadly football stadium stampede in Indonesia have criticised the acquittal of two policemen linked to the tragedy. The court decision, handed down on March 16, 2023, cleared the pair of any wrongdoing in the October 2022 stampede, which claimed the lives of around 135 people. Indone…
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a video address on March 15, 2023 that he is willing to appear in court on March 18, as clashes between his supporters and police continued for a second day. Police hit Khan supporters with batons and threw tear gas canisters at them, with some canisters landing on t…
Supporters of Pakistan’s Imran Khan rallied in Lahore on March 13, 2023, as the former prime minister continued his call for snap polls. The 70-year-old politician was ousted after a vote of no-confidence in parliament in 2022. He has been involved in several court cases since his ouster, including charges he unlawf…
North Korea will adopt “important practical” war deterrence measures, state media reported on March 12, 2023, a day before the US and South Korea start their largest joint military drills in five years. State media released footage of leader Kim Jong-un presiding over a meeting of the ruling party’s military commiss…
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After years of abuse by her ex-husband, including breaking her teeth and hands, Marwa was granted a legal separation in Afghanistan under the former US-backed government. After the Taliban took over in 2021, however, her husband claimed he would not accept the divorce, and commanders ordered her back into his clutch…
An Indonesian court handed prison sentences to two football match officials on March 9, 2023 after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world's deadliest stadium stampedes. The October 2022 derby match in Malang, East Java, between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos with 135 spectators kille…
Georgia's ruling party said on March 9, 2023, that it was dropping a bill on "foreign agents" after two nights of violent protests. The proposed legislation would have imposed registration requirements on organisations with foreign ties and was approved by parliament on its first reading a day before, sparking clash…
Seventeen bodies of victims allegedly tortured and killed by Myanmar’s ruling junta were recovered in the central region of Sagaing on March 2, 2023. A leader from the National Unity Government accused the military of committing war crimes in the countryside. The country has been embroiled in a bloody civil war for …
Pakistan police attempted on March 5, 2023, to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan. An arrest warrant was issued on February 28, after the 70-year-old politician, who was accused of illegally selling gifts from foreign dignitaries, failed to appear in court. The arrest sparked a protest by hundreds of his suppor…
In June 2020, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workplace discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity was illegal, Alaska quickly moved to follow suit.
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Vo Van Thuong was sworn in by Vietnam’s National Assembly as the country’s new president on March 2, 2023. The 52-year-old becomes the youngest ever to hold the post, one of the most powerful in the country, amid a sweeping anti-corruption crackdown orchestrated by the Southeast Asian nation’s ruling Communist Party.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un kicked off a meeting with officials of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on February 26, 2023, to discuss improving the country’s economy and agricultural sectors, according to state-run media KCNA. The meeting came amid foreign suspicions of a worsening food shortage and humanitaria…
Four former family members of a Hong Kong socialite, whose remains were found in a village house, were remanded in custody without bail after appearing in court on February 27, 2023, on charges of murder and perverting the course of justice. Abby Choi Tin-fung’s former husband, Alex Kwong Kong-chi, his parents and e…
Two Russians fleeing their country’s military draft to fight in Ukraine were granted the right to apply for refugee status in South Korea on February 14, 2023. The pair were among five trapped at Incheon Airport since October 2022, after the country’s justice ministry rejected their refugee applications, prompting t…
Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on February 14, 2023, weeks after the British broadcaster aired in the UK a documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002. Modi’s government banned the documentary from being shown in India, and a sp…
The Philippine coastguard on Monday accused a Chinese coastguard vessel of shining a “military-grade laser light” at one of its boats in the disputed South China Sea, temporarily blinding crew members. The incident, which happened on February 6, 2023, is the latest episode in a series of maritime incidents between M…
South Korean lawmakers voted to impeach the nation’s interior and safety minister on February 8, 2023. A court will now have six months to decide whether to endorse holding Lee Sang-min responsible for a botched police response during the Halloween crowd crush in which 159 people died and 196 were injured in Seoul’s…
A landmark national security trial kicked off in Hong Kong on February 6, 2023. Forty-seven activists, politicians and former legislators face charges of conspiracy to commit subversion. Around one hundred people were seen lining up outside the court, amid heavy security.
A spectacle of superhuman strength, stunts and other competitions has returned to rural India after a four-year break because of the pandemic and legal issues. The three-day Kila Raipur games opened on February 3, 3023, in the northern state of Punjab with men and women performing stunts such as lifting weights with…
The Seoul Central District Court on February 3, 2023, sentenced South Korea’s former justice minister, Cho Kuk, to two years in prison for forging documents to help his children gain university admission and interfering in a corruption investigation involving an associate of ex-president Moon Jae-in. The former star…
Indian journalist Siddique Kappan was released on bail February 2, 2023, after being held for more than two years without trial. Kappan was initially arrested in October 2020 in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on charges of conspiracy to commit violence after he travelled there to cover a high-profile gan…
An Iranian court has sentenced a young couple to 10 years and six months in prison after a video of them dancing in public was widely shared online, according to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a press group set up by the Human Rights Activists in Iran. The watchdog NGO reported that Astiyazh…
Hong Kong’s ban on cannabidiol (CBD), which is derived from cannabis, came into effect on February 1, 2023. Although legal in most countries, people caught possessing or using CBD in Hong Kong can now face seven years in jail, with up to life imprisonment for those selling or producing the now-illicit substance. Sta…
Video released on January 31, 2023, showed Donald Trump’s deposition by the New York state attorney general’s office as part of a civil fraud investigation. The former US president labelled the deposition a “witch hunt” and refused to answer any questions. By the end of the August 2022 deposition, Trump had invoked …
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Nobel laureate and journalist Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted by a Philippine court of tax evasion charges on January 18, 2023. The case stemmed from accusation by a state revenue agency that Rappler had omitted from its tax returns the proceeds of a 2015 sale of depositary receipts to foreign i…
At least one person was gored to death and dozens more were injured during Jallikattu, a traditional bull-taming festival in southern India’s Madurai District on January 14, 2023, according to news agencies citing local media. The bull-taming competition is a hugely popular annual event which sees young men grab the…
Tetsuya Yamagami was formally charged with the murder of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on January 13, 2023. Abe was assassinated with a handmade gun as he was giving a speech for an election campaign on July 8, 2022. Yamagami reportedly held a grudge against the Unification Church for impoverishing his f…
Human Rights Watch called on Asean chair Indonesia on January 12, 2023, to resolve the crisis in Myanmar. Relations between the country’s military government and the regional bloc have been strained since the ruling junta seized power in a coup in 2021. The rights group also raised concerns about the Myanmar militar…
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalised in Florida on January 9, 2023, as 1,500 of his supporters were arrested after storming key buildings in the capital city of Brasilia over the weekend. Protesters took to the streets to demand punishment for those who stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and p…
Thousands of North Koreans have joined a mass rally described as showing for the new year policy goals outlined by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, including increasing nuclear capabilities and improving national infrastructure. Workers, students and party members were gathered at the May Day Stadium in the capit…
Supporters of Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on January 8, 2023, in a grim echo of the US Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former president Donald Trump. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolson…
A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to seven years in prison for corruption on December 30, 2022, a source said. The sentencing ends the Nobel laureate’s 18-month trial and brings her combined jail term to 33 years. Detained since the February 2021 military coup, the 77-year-old deposed le…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un unveiled new goals for the country's military for 2023 at an ongoing meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, state media reported on December 28, 2022. Kim hinted at another year of intensive weapons tests and tension. While reviewing the broader political landscape, he set the directio…
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A 97-year-old woman who worked at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp in Poland as a teenager was given a suspended two-year sentence by a German court on December 20, 2022. The court ruled that Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a typist from 1943-1945, aided and abetted the murder of more than 10,500 people.
A 23-year-old man from York in northern England was charged on December 19, 2022, with “threatening behaviour” after several eggs were hurled at King Charles during a visit to the city in November. Patrick Thelwell will appear at York Magistrates’ Court on January 20, the Crown Prosecution Service said, following an…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In the months after a West Virginia court permanently took away their right to parent their daughters this past April, Jackie Snodgrass and her husband were left in a quiet house. The kids’ rooms remained untouched. The same dolls and stuffed animals were arranged on their younger daughter’s bed.…
By the time Karl Ashanti neared his office in the New York City Law Department’s headquarters in March 2018, the police were shutting down Park Place. Ice had fallen from the buildings above, so an officer had cordoned off the area. Ashanti flashed his work ID and the cop let him through. Then, about two-thirds of t…
The former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Stand News website in Hong Kong has secured bail after being remanded in custody for nearly a year pending trial on sedition charges. Chung Pui-kuen, 53, as well as former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam Shiu-tung, 35, and Stand News’ holding company Best Pencil (Hong…
Former US president Donald Trump’s company was convicted on December 6, 2022, of running a long-running tax fraud scheme. A jury in the state of New York found the Trump Organisation guilty on all 17 charges it faced, including paying personal expenses for its top executives and not reporting them for more than a de…
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A district court in Tokyo has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional. But the decision, handed down on November 30, 2022, added that the lack of legal protection for same-sex families violates their human rights. Plaintiffs in the case said the ruling signifies “progress”, saying they could pave the…
