Above Photo: Edward Fitzgerald QC, the lead barrister representing Julian Assange, entering the Old Bailey in London on September 7, 2020. London, U.K. – Following a June 17 decision from British Secretary of State Priti Patel approving the order to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, lawyers for the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher have since submitted filings indicating they intend to fight the decision on 16 legal grounds. As first revealed by The Wall Street Journal, lawyers for Assange submitted two separate appeal applications: one against Patel’s decision, the second against a January 2021 ruling from the lower courts that originally barred the extradition on […]
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Above Photo: Colani Maseko’s bail came a day after the SNUS marched to the Manzini regional police headquarters and held a demonstration on February 3. @CPSwaziland on Twitter. The arrest of Colani Maseko and subsequent torture of student leaders coincided with a fresh wave of anti-monarchist protests. A court in the city of Manzini granted bail to Colani Maseko, the president of Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS) on Friday, February 4. The student leader had been arrested on January 31 and charged with sedition. His bail came a day after the SNUS marched to the Manzini regional police headquarters and […]
Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested last month by the Narcotics Control Bureau of India for allegedly supplying drugs to late actor and ex-boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput. He was found dead on 14 June at his Mumbai flat. Rhea was accused of being “an active member of a drug syndicate”. Bollywood celebrities have hailed a Mumbai High Court decision to grant bail to actress Rhea Chakraborty almost a month after she was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). She was held on 8 September in an alleged drug case related to the death of a fellow actor, Sushant Singh Rajput, and […]
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has suffered a minor blow in its hunt for millions of dollars that went missing two years ago. Bitfinex’s parent firm, iFinex Inc., is seeking to trace $850 million in user funds seized by authorities in four different countries after bank accounts held by its payment processor, Crypto Capital, were frozen in August 2018. iFinex applied for subpoenas in Colorado, Arizona and Georgia in April, but the U.S. District Court of Georgia recently denied its request due to filing errors. According to a court ruling filed June 8, Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman said the bank iFinex is trying to subpoena merged with another financial […]