Click to expand Image A photograph of Gubad Ibadoghlu taken in 2021. 2021 Private (Berlin, July 25, 2023) - Azerbaijani authorities have arrested a prominent opposition leader and scholar, Gubad Ibadoghlu, on spurious criminal charges, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 24, 2023, Baku's Narimanov District Court sent Ibadoghlu for four months of pretrial detention on charges of production, acquisition or sale of counterfeit money by an organized group. If convicted, Ibadoghlu could face up to 12 years in prison. During the arrest, police ill-treated Ibadoglu and his wife, who was with him at the time. The authorities should drop charges against him and free him. "Ibadoghlu's detention falls squarely in a longstanding pattern of pursuing dubious charges against government critics in Azerbaijan," said Giorgi Gogia, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Such spurious charges appear to serve only one goal - to silence opposition and c
On April 8, 2023, the Assam Police arrested three active suspects linked to the banned Islamist radical Popular Front of India (PFI) and its student wing, Campus Front of India (CFI), from the Barpeta District of Assam. The arrestees were identified as PFI ‘state secretary’ Zakir Hussain, PFI cadre Abu Sama, and CFI National Treasurer Shahidul Islam. INR 150,000 in cash, four mobile phones and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) leaflets, were recovered from them.
Convicted Portland murderer Larry Hurwitz is facing a potential six-month jail term for violating the terms of his post-prison release supervision for the infamous 1990 murder of Tim Moreau.
VAX WITH INCENTIVES. Residents of Bataan queue up to get inoculated against Covid-19 during the mass vaccination with incentives project that was launched on July 20, 2022. The project, dubbed "Bakunahan Bayanihan sa Barangay: Panalo ang Bakunado at Boosted na Bataeno", has so far vaccinated 21,747 individuals from 11 towns and one city in the province and in Balanga City. (Photo by Ernie Esconde) BALANGA CITY, Bataan - A total of 21,747 residents of this province have been vaccinated as part of a five-day mass inoculation with "incentives" activity that began on July 20 to curb the rising number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases here. Governor Jose Enrique Garcia III said Monday that 5,499 individuals submitted themselves to vaccination on July 20, followed by 5,287 on July 21. A total of 6,509 got inoculated on July 22 and 4,452 on July 23. Inoculation was ongoing on the last day of the activity. Garcia reiterated his request to 237 barangay chairperson