In a few years, anyone caught having sex outside of marriage in Indonesia will face up to a year in prison. Indonesia’s Parliament has signed into law a criminal code that penalizes sex outside marriage by up to a year in prison. The new criminal code, which is part of the myriads of changes including a…
A District Court in Toyko has upheld Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional but says a lack of legal protection for same-sex couples violates their rights and is unconstitutional. Tell the story… In March 2021, a Sapporo District court in Hikkaido, Japan’s northernmost Main Island ruled that Japan’s prevention of same-sex couples from marrying contradicted Article…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) last week announced the seizure of N198b worth of cocaine in Ikorodu, Lagos state. The agency announced on Tuesday that it has destroyed the illicit drugs. Is that the end of the case? No, the arrested drug offenders will face prosecution. In a statement on Tuesday regarding the…
The panel set up to investigate violations committed by members of the disbanded Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) submitted its report yesterday in Abuja. What’s in the report? The Independent Investigation Panel’s report on alleged Human Rights Violations committed by the Anti-robbery unit of the Nigerian Police Force found no fewer than 72 members of the…
68-year-old Ayodele Faremi was yesterday remanded in prison by an Osogbo Magistrate court for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a ten-year-old girl. Police Prosecutor, ASP John Idoko, in the charge letter, accused Faremi of taking undue advantage and sexually exploiting the victim whose name has been concealed from the media. How did it happen?…
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has declared a 29-year-old Nigerian, Chidozie Collins Obasi, wanted for an alleged $30m fraud. How did the fraud happen? Posing as a representative of an Indonesian-based medical supply company, according to the FBI, Obasi defrauded the State of New York at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic…
The United Nations (UN) in a new report has said that China may have committed crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region of the country. May have? The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, whose tenure just ended, stated this in the report which follows her visit to China in May. The report…
An Abuja Federal High court has dismissed a suit by the Federal Government seeking to extradite suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari to the United State to face trial on allegations of his involvement in internet fraud alongside popular Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass also known as Hushpuppi. Justice Inyang Ekwo in his judgment…
Inibehe Effiong, the Lagos-based Human Rights Lawyer and socio-political Activist sent to prison by the Chief Justice of Akwa-Ibom State has been released from prison. Oh! That’s good news, what did he say? Inibehe, upon his release from Ikot Ikpene prison yesterday, at about 8:00 am told the crowd of supporters and journalists, who gathered…
Saudi women’s rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was a Ph.D. student at England’s Leeds University in January 2021, when she was arrested and questioned for almost a year before being brought to Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court. What was her crime? The charges against her included “providing succor to those seeking to disrupt public order and…
