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China Jails Protestant Pastor For 9 Years

December 30, 2019 4:58 pm

China on Monday jailed the leader of an unofficial Protestant church for nine years for “incitement to subvert state power”.

Pastor Wang Yi, whose Early Rain Covenant Church was the target of a government crackdown last year, was also found guilty of “illegal business operation” by a court in Chengdu, southwest China, according to an announcement on an official court website.

Wang was detained in December 2018 in a raid by authorities in which dozens of members of his “underground church” disappeared.

China’s officially atheist government is wary of any organised movements outside its own control, including religious ones.

Protestants …

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Mixed Reactions As Court Jails Orji Uzor Kalu 12 Years

December 6, 2019 5:43 am
• Abia residents lament forfeiture of assets to FG

Reactions poured in yesterday in the wake of the 12-year jail term bagged by a former Abia State governor Orji Uzor Kalu for fraud. For the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), the conviction was proof of President Muhammadu Buhari’s sincerity in fighting corruption, even as some residents in the state described the forfeiture of assets to the Federal Government as unfair.

In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said the conviction of a high ranking APC chieftain proves that the courts are independent in this

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Algeria Jails 22 Protesters Over Berber Flags

November 12, 2019 2:37 pm
Twenty-two Algerian demonstrators were handed one-year jail sentences Tuesday for “undermining national unity” by bearing the Berber minority’s flag during anti-regime protests, a prisoners’ rights group said.
The CNLD committee said on its Facebook page that a court in the capital’s Sidi Mhamed district had sentenced the accused to 12 months in prison — half of it suspended — and fines of 30,000 dinars ($275).

Said Salhi, vice president of the Algerian human rights groups LADDH, condemned the ruling as “heavy, hard and unexpected”, adding that defence lawyers would appeal.

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Protesters Take To Streets As Spain Jails Catalan Leaders

Protesters Take To Streets As Spain Jails Catalan Leaders

October 14, 2019 12:30 pm

Within minutes of the ruling, protesters had poured onto the streets of the Catalan capital, waving flags and blocking traffic over the conviction of the separatist leaders who organised a 2017 referendum banned by Madrid.

“I feel fury and a sense of powerlessness,” said Joan Guich, a 19-year-old student protesting in Barcelona after Spain’s Supreme Court jailed nine Catalan leaders jailed over a failed independence bid.

“They have been convicted for an ideology which I agree with.”

“We have to mobilise and stick up for them … in a way that has an impact, closing airports, stations, but always avoiding …

Court grants El-Zakzaky leave for medical attention abroad

Court jails man for one year for sharing pornographic image

July 5, 2019 11:52 am

For sharing pornographic and indecent images, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, on Friday, secured the conviction of one Ismail Yunus.

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Ibadan Division, found Yunus guilty of sending the indecent pictures through the e-mail: lindasc147@gmail.com, to defraud people and getting involved in other internet-related fraud.

The offense is contrary to Section 24 (1) (a) and punishable under Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act, 2015.

Read Also: Censors Board caution youths against pornography

The defendant had earlier pleaded guilty to the one-count amended charge, …

Bet9ja: Court jails man for gambling without paying

May 2, 2019 12:28 pm

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old painter, Oluwatobi Olaore, to 14 days’ imprisonment for playing N7,000 lotto (bet9ja) and refusing to pay.

The Magistrate, Mr Sam Obaleye, sentenced the painter who pleaded guilty to the charge.

Obaleye, however, gave the painter  an option of N20, 000 fine.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Adejoke Adebari, told the court that the painter  committed the offence on April 27 at 8:30p.m. at Ijaye area of Abeokuta.

Adebari said that the defendant entered into the shop of one Zainab Tejuoso and played bet9ja game of N7,000 knowing that he did not have …

US slams WikiLeaks Julian Assange with 18-count charge

Court Jails Julian Assange for violating bail conditions

May 1, 2019 10:49 am

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.

The 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.

He took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.

In a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself “struggling with difficult circumstances”.

He apologised to those who “consider I’ve disrespected them”, a packed Southwark Crown Court heard.

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