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Christophe Gleizes’s sentencing on appeal by an Algerian court has sent shockwaves just as all signs pointed to a thaw in relations between Paris and Algiers. The apparent, perhaps temporary, failure of diplomacy has put Paris in an awkward position and reignited the campaign to support the journalist.
She’s an accused jihadist originally from Brittany who spent 10 years in Syria, including five as a prisoner. French prosecutors say König acted as a social media recruiter of sorts for ISIS.
A year has passed since the start of this historic Mazan rape trial. Far from the courtroom in Avignon, how has the woman who became a global icon emerged from her journey into the depths of darkness?
Lebanese authorities had promised the investigation into the Beirut port explosion would be completed within five days. Five years later, Daraj reports on what is still holding up this case, and talks with the country’s new Justice minister about the country’s need for truth.
The Epstein scandal is following Trump, seemingly, wherever he goes. Although we should never underestimate the American president’s power to use conspiracies to his advantage, could this be the story that finally pierces Trump’s armor?
Some 49,000 soldiers have deserted from the Russian army. But to avoid the harshest charges or being sent forcibly back to the front, some are surrendering promptly in the hopes of being sent simply to prison.
For years, critics have tried to bury #MeToo, often holding up high-profile acquittals as proof of its demise. Yet, when convictions occur, no one calls it a victory for the movement. This contradiction reveals a deep misunderstanding of what #MeToo was — and an urgent need for it to stay alive.
Updated October 3, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. O.J. Simpson’s acquittal in the murder trial of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on this day in 1995 was a highly publicized and controversial event in American legal history. Who is O.J. Simpson and what were the charges against him? O.J. Simpson, was a former professional football […]
At just 18-years-old, Daria Kozyreva sits in a pre-trial detention center. She is facing five years for “repeatedly discrediting the Russian army.” Here is her letter to all Russians, trying to convince people of good will to denounce the Kremlin regime.
Updated June 19, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for espionage, accused of providing classified information about atomic bomb technology to the Soviet Union. What was the charge against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a New York couple, were charged with conspiracy to […]
Updated June 17, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. U.S. retired football star and celebrity O.J. Simpson was arrested on this day in 1994 for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. The two victims had been found dead five days earlier. How did O.J. Simpson’s arrest happen? After the murders, […]
Psychologists call it “moral decoupling” when people continue to support notable people in politics, media and sports even when they believe these leaders have significant moral failings outside of their professional vocation.
Three women who were victims of sexual violence during the Colombian Civil War recount their stories of struggle and survival. They speak up in the hopes that the judiciary will open a new case to bring justice to them and many more survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated during the conflict.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has just pleaded “not guilty” criminal charges linked to his push to overturn 2020 election results. Indicted for the third time in four months, he is still somehow able to use the situation to fuel his campaign for re-election in 2024. The future election, American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux writes, is a choice between democracy and the further criminalization of U.S. politics.
From the depths of his prison cell, President Putin’s best-known opponent, Alexei Navalny, appears to have a plan for how to turn Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed uprising into new momentum for his cause for democracy and regime change in Moscow.
-Analysis- What do South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Italy, France, Portugal, and Iceland all have in common? They’re all wealthy democracies that have charged and prosecuted former heads of state or heads of government for criminal acts committed while in office. The United States is not a member of this club — at least, not yet. […]
Opioid and oil companies alike have a history of obfuscating science as a litigation tactic. How does this harm victims?
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation suit has become a Hollywood media (sh*t) storm, but there are troubling real consequences in the way domestic violence is being portrayed, when the victim is less-than-perfect.
The trial opens this week of those accused of masterminding the Nov. 13, 2015 attacks at Parisian cafés and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Le Monde’s front-page editorial puts the court hearings into historical context.
The truth, the whole truth … and exactly what he thinks — but should never say out loud.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/lec-AslZYvo expand=1] A local murder case that set off a worldwide movement arrived this week at its verdict, after three weeks of witness and expert testimonies: A Minneapolis jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. A bystander’s video had captured Chauvin kneeling on […]
Since its founding in 1949, the iconic French weekly Paris Match has published countless photos of the rich and powerful — and every now and then, a paparazzi shot might cost them. This time, instead, it was a homeless man demanding the magazine pay serious VIP money for running a photograph of him without his […]
It’s stupid to expect people without any medical training to understand how each vaccine candidate has been evaluated. Public accountability offers an alternative.
As the European Commission targets U.S. retail giant Amazon for alleged antitrust violations, David Barroux in French business daily Les Echos offers his own take.
Here in the Italian region of Lombardy, which has been one of the pandemic’s deadliest epicenters, months of grief have now turned to anger. It began as relatives of COVID-19 victims formed a Facebook group Noi Denunceremo (“We will sue”), where 55,000 members are demanding the truth about Italy’s fumbled coronavirus response, La Repubblica reported. […]
Welcome to Monday, where the Myanmar generals are tightening their grip, new COVID variants are identified and a very ancient watering hole is discovered in Egypt. We also have a Die Welt piece on the dark side of the dream of moving out to the countryside. • COVID-19 latest: Researchers have identified seven new variants […]
Fourteen months ago the progressive mayor of Riace, in Calabria, was arrested. Soon after, many of the refugees he’d help settle pulled up stakes and left.
The fate of disgraced auto chief Carlos Ghosn has revealed deep differences between the Japanese and Western systems of justice. And not only.
The President’s former lawyer pleads guilty on the same day his former campaign chairman is convicted of financial crimes. The hand of special counsel Robert S. Mueller is significantly strengthened. What happens now?
PARIS — A short time ago, in a place not so far away, Star Wars fans in France were treated to a special Darth Vader drama, with a courtroom plot. Ahead of the release of the franchise’s latest installment,The Last Jedi, a public trial was held in Paris for the father of all villains. The […]
Libération, July 24, 2017 Leading French daily Libération showed its support for embattled Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet, as a trial gets underway for 17 journalists and staff members on charges of aiding a terrorist organization. The front page for this special Libération with Cumhuriyet edition features a cartoon — a meaningful choice of expression in […]
O Globo, Aug. 29 Brazil’s suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, will address the Senate today as part of the final moments of her trial before a vote on her impeachment tomorrow. Rousseff studied each and every senator in detail last week “to have something up her sleeve if she gets attacked,” Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported […]
GRASSE — They call it “the Provençal permit,” a local custom of sorts that involves building first and asking questions later. The logic is that once a construction is in place, authorities will feel more or less obliged to approve it retroactively. It is surprising how often that actually happens. Recently, though, one land owner […]
“Court slams last door for Pistorius,” Afrikaans-language daily Volksblad writes on its front page Friday, a day after South Africa’s highest court denied the Paralympic champion’s request to appeal his murder conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Pistorius is now scheduled to be sentenced in Pretoria’s High Court on April 18, according […]
“Justice at last” writes Johannesburg-based daily The Citizen, one day after Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of murder as a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. Pistorius could now face a 15-year prison term, after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) overturned his earlier conviction of culpable homicide to murder […]
For the past 30 years, the American lawyer has been hunting down former despots all over the world. The trial of the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, which opened last month, is the latest fruit of his work.
The Boston Globe, March 5, 2015 “IT WAS HIM” writes The Boston Globe on the front page of its Thursday edition, alongside a courtroom sketch depicting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev entering the courtroom on the first day of testimony in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. The Boston daily attributes the quote to a lawyer for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: […]
In 2010, French police seized a huge stash of previously unseen Picasso drawings at the home of the late artist’s electrician. Were they gifts or stolen goods? An ongoing trial will decide.
Almost four years after the New York trial that ended his political career, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is back in court Monday in a case that once again centers on his sex life. This time, he’s defending himself against charges of “aggravated pimping” related to the presence of prostitutes at sex parties. In the northern France city […]