A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since. The official narrative is that Saab had bilked the Venezuelans in a “vast corruption network” and the US as the world’s self-appointed cop was
A case has been filed against the government of Sierra Leone to overturn the nation’s loitering laws, which rights advocates and lawyers claim are discriminatory, and used by police to extract bribes from people and sexually abuse women.
The laws are used to target poor and vulnerable people, and to subject them to criminal sanctions for potential conduct rather than actual harm caused, critics say.
Women arrested for loitering, and lacking money to pay bribes, have claimed they have been violently raped by police officers.
Others say they have been coerced into having sex to avoid spending the night in a police
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The Nigerian government is to pay N30 million as compensation for the killing of a 35-year-old man, Solomon Andy, the Economic Community of West African