Joseph Zen, 90, a retired Catholic bishop, was fined $512 by a Hong Kong court after being convicted along with five others of failing to register a fund that aided people arrested during pro-democracy protests.
A historically Black university in North Carolina says it has filed a complaint with the Department of Justice seeking a review of a search of a bus carrying students during a traffic stop in South Carolina last month. Shaw University President Paulette Dillard has accused law enforcement officers of racially profiling students traveling to a conference in Atlanta. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright called the accusations false, saying officers stopped the bus because it was swerving. Dillard says the issue is how the alleged minor violation turned into a drug search. The complaint states that a lane violation would be insufficient justification for a search and students’ privacy was violated because they didn’t consent to a luggage search.
Shaw University has filed an official complaint with the U.S. Justice Department to request an investigation into potential Title VI and civil rights violations committed by police during an Oct. 5 traffic stop and search of a Shaw-chartered bus.
A drug interdiction operation resulted in a charter bus carrying students on a field trip to Atlanta being stopped and students luggage searched by drug sniffing dogs last month.