A former Belarusian presidential candidate who last year attempted to run against the country’s authoritarian president was convicted of bribery and money laundering after what many have called an unjust trial. 

Forty minutes before midnight on Wednesday, the former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, handed himself in to police officers to begin his 15-month sentence for contempt of court.

Media in Japan as well as some public figures criticized on Wednesday the decision by Japanese prosecutors not to charge 100 people involved in an electoral fraud scheme that landed former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai in hot water.

Gunfire broke out in the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince Wednesday evening as Haitian police took on what they said were “mercenaries” suspected of assassinating the country’s president earlier that day. 

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday announced 17 new additions to its “Press Freedom Predators” series — a gallery of portraits last updated in 2016 of leaders who in their positions of power suppress press freedom by targeting, harassing, jailing and attacking journalists.

The French Gendarmerie and the Moldovan Border Police arrested nine people suspected of being members of an organized crime group involved in a scheme to defraud the French budget of 2 million euro (US$2.36 million), Europol said in a statement on Monday.

Dutch crime reporter and investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries was fighting for his life in a hospital on Wednesday after he was shot in Amsterdam the night before.

Austria’s former vice chancellor and leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) went on trial on Tuesday in Vienna for helping change a law in order to accommodate the owner of a private hospital in exchange for a donation to his party and a weekend on the hospital owner’s yacht.

A Vatican court has summoned 10 people for trial, including a cardinal, over a controversial London property deal that incurred a loss of more than US$21 million and embroiled the Holy See in a scandal.

Corruption and discrimination often go hand in hand, causing a “double harm,” a joint study by Transparency International and the Equal Rights Trust released on Tuesday found.