War crimes judges will Thursday hand down an eagerly anticipated ruling on whether South Africa flouted international law by failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2015, wanted for...
A governance expert at the University of Professional Studies says claims of corruption against Ghana’s parliament could cause the people to question the credibility of the work members of...
A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, Indian police said Sunday. The 35-year-old mother, who was allegedly gangraped in...
Another barbaric act of Jungle Justice was almost meted out to a 19-year-old who allegedly attempting to steal a stationary motorbike at the Wa Central lorry station in the Upper West Region (UWR)....
Jumping turnstiles on the Manhattan subway will no longer be an offense punishable by arrest and imprisonment, a New York prosecutor said Friday, a move designed to unclog the city's courts and...
A former CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago said Thursday she intended to return to Italy to face her sentence, but hopes to...
The Bolgatanga Magistrate court, on Thursday 28th June, granted the Chief of Pelungu, Naab Sierig Sore Sobil IV a bail of GHC10,000 with two sureties after charges of conspiracy to commit murder in...
Ghana has been ranked a Tier 2 Watch List country in the 2017 Trafficking in Persons report released on Tuesday by the United States government. The report, themed “Enhancing Criminal...
Madam Gloria Afua Akuffo, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, on Tuesday, said the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor is a top priority of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)....
The 12 persons being held for attacking and vandalizing the Somanya Police station and office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the town have been granted GHC70,000 each with two sureties....
President Donald Trump's administration hit China Tuesday over its rights record, listing the country alongside Sudan and North Korea on a list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders. The...
A Koforidua Circuit Court has granted the 12 suspects who attacked and vandalized the Somanya office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Police station to a GHc70,000 bail with two sureties...
Chinese police and prosecutors are banned from using torture to obtain evidence under rules released Tuesday, in the latest attempt to curb forced confessions in the country's criminal justice...
The UN on Monday criticised a decision by a Congolese military tribunal not to prosecute seven Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers for crimes against humanity. "We regret" the tribunal's decision,...
AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one of Afghanistan's most egregious human rights violations. Here are some key...
When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen...
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that immigrants can get another shot in court if deported after their lawyers advise them to plead guilty. The top court's ruling in a case involving a South Korean...
Federal Government prosecutors at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, has filed an appeal against the verdict acquitting the Senate President Bukola Saraki, of charges of corruption and false declaration of...
Ghana stands the risk of losing the $500 million dollars grant from the Millennium Development Co-operation Challenge Account for failing to fight human trafficking, United States Ambassador to...
Police prosecutors say they are ready to prosecute 32 out of the 58 suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The prosecutors made the announcement when the...
