Ho Court Frees Volta Secessionists
The Ho High Court has freed some members of the Volta secessionist group, who were standing trial on treason felony charges. The discharge of the seven persons follows a motion filed in court...
Tag: Criminal law
O.J. Simpson Fate In Hands of Parole Board
Nine years after being sent to prison for armed robbery, fallen American idol O. J. Simpson is to find out whether he will regain his freedom. The 70-year-old former football star and actor is to...
Ghana Is Not A Safe Place
Let me begin this with a confession. After the admonition to diasporans to “stop whining”, I have taken to thinking of a place in Cape Coast called, “Kawanopaedo” (Keep quiet). While in that...
Court Orders Maj. Mahama ‘killers’ To Be Sent To Prison
A District Court in Accra has ordered that the 19 suspects being held for the gruesome murder of major Maxwell Adam Mahama be moved from police cells to Prison custody. It follows a request put forth...
Philippines Puts Big Casinos On Money-Laundering Watch
The Philippines said Wednesday it would monitor large transactions at casinos to curb money-laundering, after proceeds from an $81 million theft were funnelled through several gambling establishments...
[Video] I Feel Dejected Seeing Movie Makers Mimic Disability – Pazzo Joe
Kaneshie-based physically challenged musician Pazzo Joe says he feels dejected seeing movie scenes that mock and mimic people with disabilities. The up-and-coming musician, real name Shaddrack Kojo...
Tema Court Shooting Was To Maintain Order – Prisons Service
A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning was to separate a fight between two convicts, the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, has explained....
Parole Board To Decide O.J. Simpson Fate
Former American football star O. J. Simpson has spent nearly nine years in prison. Not for the grisly 1994 murders of his ex-wife and a male companion -- he was famously acquitted in that case. No,...
Ghanaian Gay Man Deported From Belgium For Not Being Gay Enough
Think you’ve heard the weirdest reasons for deportation of immigrants from a country, wait till you hear this. A Ghanaian man has been deported from Belgium to his country ‘because he wasn’t...
Spate of Crime In Wa – A Trend That Needs Desperate Solution [Article]
One doesn’t need statistics from an empirical research to identify with the spate of crime in the Wa Municipality. In fact, observation and real life situations speak volumes than figures....
Bail For Accused In S.African Coffin Assault Case
Two white South African farmers accused of pushing a black labourer into a coffin and threatening to burn him alive were granted bail on Friday. The assault was captured on video apparently filmed on...
Gender Ministry Internsifies Fight Against Human Trafficking
Government has allocated some 1.5million Cedis to the human trafficking secretariat under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to support the fight against human trafficking and to...
JRF-Ghana Launches Concert To Support Juvenile Offenders
JUVENILE Reform Foundation (JRF-Ghana) has launched its charity concert to support released juvenile offenders and incarcerated juvenile inmates in the various correctional centres in Ghana. The...
Five Zuarungu High School Students Remanded For Rioting
The Bolgatanga Magistrate court has remanded into police custody five students of Zuarungu Senior High School in the Upper East Region. The five were arrested and arraigned before court on Wednesday...
Police Caution Public Sector Workers Against Fraudsters
The Ghana Police Service has warned workers in the public service to be wary of the activities of fraudsters who have devised new strategies to defraud them. In a statement issued on Thursday, the...
Bangladesh Opposition Activists Held In Secret Detention
Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed, an international rights group said Thursday. Amid heightened political...
Family of Murdered Chief Angry Over Release of Prime Suspect
Family members of the late Development Chief of Ardeyman community in Accra, Nii Tetteh Sarbah, who was killed under very bizarre circumstances are appealing to the Inspector General of Police (IGP),...
Activists Urge ICC To Probe Mexico’s ‘crimes Against Humanity’
Rights activists on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court to probe years of killings and disappearances, as well as torture and detentions, in violence-plagued northern Mexico. "From...
Canada To Award Millions To Former Guantanamo Detainee
Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and detained for 13 years, according to...
Alarm Blows Over Plans To Release ‘killers’ of Ardeyman Chief
There is a turf-war between some top police officers at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), headquartered at the Ghana Police Service in Accra, and the family members of the late...