HRW Urges Pakistan’s New Government to Prioritize Human Rights
In a letter addressed to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a global human rights watchdog urged the country's newly elected government to prioritize human rights.
In a letter addressed to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a global human rights watchdog urged the country's newly elected government to prioritize human rights.
Kyrgyzstan lawmakers passed the so-called “foreign agents” law on Thursday, which requires anyone receiving donations from outside the country to declare themselves a foreign agent and be exposed to tight government scrutiny.
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom raided two sites in southern England on Tuesday and arrested three suspects of an alleged 76 million pounds (US$97 million) fraud involving luxury care homes.
The mastermind behind the cryptocurrency mixer Bitcoin Fog was convicted Tuesday in U.S. federal court for facilitating the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars in darknet transactions linked to illegal narcotics, identity theft, and child sexual abuse material.
Spanish and Polish authorities arrested 17 alleged members of a transnational human trafficking organization and rescued 13 victims who were forced to endure slavery-like conditions and sexual servitude, Europol reported Tuesday.
Robbing banks or jewelry stores is so passé these days. Instead of guns and balaclavas, criminals now use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies combined with phishing and ransomware - low cost and quite effective methods to steal people’s money, Interpol claims in a new report.
Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, admitted to irregularities in donations received by the ruling party in recent years but claimed they fall short of a crime.
A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday extended the pre-trial detention of eight journalists who are charged with “inciting mass unrest” –– accusations that come amidst a widespread government crackdown on free speech.
A year-long Europol-led investigation led to the arrest of 19 suspects in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and the dismantling of migrant smuggling networks that had been operating for years along the so-called Balkan route.
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted in a U.S. federal court of abusing his office to help drug traffickers ship more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.