Criminal justice
Chicken Pox Strikes 29 Foreign Illegal Miners Facing Trial
The 29 foreigners arrested for illegally mining in the Atiwa Forest reserve have been infected with rashes suspected to...
Shopkeeper, 48, Defiles Girl, 11
A 48-year-old shopkeeper has been dragged before an Accra circuit court for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old pupil....
Police Condemn Rise In Instant Justice
The Ghana Police Service has bemoaned the conduct of instant justice meted out to individuals suspected to be criminals...
Girlfriends Weep As Court Remand Robbers
Some girlfriends and family members of suspected robbers arrested by the Eastern Regional Police command broke down in...
Bimbilla Clashes: 17 Granted Bail
A District Court in Tamale has granted bail to some 17 suspects arrested in the latest chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla...
Bimbilla Clashes
A District Court in Tamale has granted bail to some 17 suspects arrested in the latest chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla...
Undercover Panorama Report Reveals Prison Chaos
Chaos in one of the biggest prisons in the country has been revealed in secret filming for the BBC. An undercover...
New Zealand To Quash Historical Gay Sex Convictions
New Zealand has said it will move to quash historical convictions for consensual sex between men. Justice Minister Amy...
Thousands Hanged At Saydnaya Prison, Amnesty Says
As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in...
We’re Not Guilty – 29 Foreign Illegal Miners Tell Court
The 29 foreigners arrested for illegal mining in the Atiwa Rain Forest Reserve have pleaded not guilty to three charges...
29 Foreign Illegal Miners Tell Court
The 29 foreigners arrested for illegal mining in the Atiwa Rain Forest Reserve have pleaded not guilty to three charges...
Court Refuses Bail For Cocaine Suspect
A Sunyani Circuit Court yesterday refused to grant a bail application in a case in which a 23-year old suspect, Sabina...
3 Robbers Charged For Attacking Judge
Three persons are in hot waters for allegedly robbing four people, including Justice Araba Esaaba Torkornu, a judge of...
Phone Thief Jailed 4 Years
For habitually stealing phones from people, a scrap dealer has been sentenced to serve four years in prison with hard...
Woman Arrested For Attempting To Smuggle Cocaine Into Sunyani Central Prison
A 23-year-old woman from Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region, Sakina Mustapha, has been arrested for attempting to...
Woman Arrested For Attempting To Smuggle Cocaine To Prisoner
A 23-year-old self-employed woman dealing in used ladies shoes from Berekum in the Berekum Municipality of the Brong...
3rd Brazilian Prison Riot In A Week Leaves 4 Dead
Four people died Sunday in a riot at a prison in Brazil, the nation's third deadly prison uprising in seven days. Three...
Drugs Gang ‘kills 33 Inmates’ In Brazilian Jail
Some 56 inmates were killed at the Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus at the weekend At least 33 prisoners have been killed...
Two New Prison Camps To Be Established At Ejura and Kokofu
Two new prison camps are to be established in the Ashanti region in 2017, the Ashanti Regional Commander of Prisons, Mr...