The Indian legal community seems to have witnessed its own ‘Hans Litten’ moment as Advocate Mehmood Pracha’s office was raided by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police this week. Hitler hated lawyers, but one lawyer whose name couldn’t even be mentioned in Hitler’s presence was that of Hans Achim Litten. He opposed the Nazis at… Read More Avani Bansal: Raid on Mehmood Pracha’s Office: India’s Hans Litten Moment?
On Thursday, the Delhi Police’s Special Cell raided the office of Mehmood Pracha, a lawyer representing several people who are accused in the February Delhi riots. The raid, which lasted for 15 hours, relates to alleged cases of fraud. This includes allegations that Pracha had forged signatures on a notarised document as well as instigated… Read More Police raid on Delhi riots advocate raises alarm bells among lawyers
NB: The Russian head of state speaks like a cheap street thug. The USSR may have faded away, but the KGB lives on. He and his chum in the White House have a lot in common: a mafia mentality. DS Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Thursday that opposition politician Alexey Navalny “is enjoying the support of… Read More Putin says if Russia wanted to kill opposition leader Navalny, it would have 'finished' the job
Why should their lordships get so infuriated by a couple of sallies targeting them – he spares no one, not even the prime minister or his pit bull anchor. Kamra belongs to a hoary tradition of court jesters – recollect Akbar and Birbal, Patch Sexton in the court of Henry VIII (who inspired Shakespeare’s fool… Read More Kunal Kamra and the Elasticity of Justice. By Avay Shukla
“Calling it the justice system gives a false impression. Just using the term ‘justice’ gives you the sense that it is a just system,” Forbes said. Black people make up about 13% of the U.S. population but account for about half of all exonerations and 54% of homicide exonerations since 1989.. DETROIT – Walter Forbes was a full-time student… Read More Omar Abdel-Baqui: Michigan man imprisoned for nearly 4 decades exonerated after witness admits lying
Prosecutors in Italy have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over the kidnapping and murder of the Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. Tariq Saber, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim, Capt Uhsam Helmi and Maj Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif are accused of kidnapping the young student in 2016, and Sharif is also accused of… Read More Italy charges Egyptian security agency officials over murder of Giulio Regeni // Hundreds have died in Egyptian custody, says report
MIND OF STATE, Episode 10: Justice, Rage & Peace Civil Rights Activist Eric Ward — Exec Director of the Western States Center and Senior Fellow of the Southern Poverty Law Center — was an inspiration to speak with on White Supremacy, White Nationalism, Authoritarianism and how we combat these threats to our democracy https://apple.co/2W9rDdH… Read More MIND OF STATE, Episode 10: Justice, Rage & Peace. By Civil Rights Activist Eric Ward
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government or the State Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or of any rules or… Read More P. Sainath: Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers? // SCBA president says farm laws 'unconstitutional', offers free services as lawyer to agitating farmers
It was minutes into India’s Independence Day when police stormed a slum in the western state of Gujarat where Hira Bajania, 65, was sleeping. In the black of night, he was dragged from his home, taken to a nearby police station and accused, with 11 other men, of stealing cell phones. As dawn broke on… Read More Indian police use violence as a shortcut to justice. It's the poorest who bear the scars. By Mohit Rao
PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday accused of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling, one of several criminal investigations that threaten to cast an ignominious pall over his decades-long political career. Prosecutors allege Sarkozy offered to secure a plum job in Monaco for judge… Read More France's Sarkozy goes on trial for corruption. By Richard Lough
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