| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Clashes in Maldives as protesters call for ex-president's release | | | By Daniel Bosley and Tom Miles MALE/GENEVA (Reuters) - Clashes broke out in the Maldives on Friday after thousands of supporters of the tropical archipelago's jailed former president took to the streets to call for his release. A crowd of more than 10,000 people had gathered earlier on Friday, before marching through the streets chanting "Free Nasheed". The protest was the largest since Nasheed was imprisoned in March for his role in ordering the arrest of a judge in a trial the United Nations has said was highly flawed and politically motivated. "People have poured out in record numbers to demand President Nasheed's release." The Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago of fewer than 400,000 people, is increasingly polarised between Nasheed's supporters and those backing President Abdulla Yameen. |
| Six Baltimore police officers face murder, other charges in Freddie Gray's death | |  By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Six Baltimore police officers will face criminal charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter, in the death of a black man who was arrested and suffered a fatal neck injury while riding in a moving police van, the city's chief prosecutor said on Friday. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said Freddie Gray, who died a week after his April 12 arrest, was in handcuffs but otherwise was not restrained inside the van. Gray's death has become the latest flashpoint in a national outcry over the treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups by U.S. law enforcement. After a night of rioting in Baltimore on Monday, protests spread to other major cities in a reprise of demonstrations last year set off by police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and elsewhere.
|
| Burundi president warns of "severe sanctions" against protesters | | | By Edmund Blair and Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza warned on Friday of tough measures against those staging protests against his decision to seek a third term, a move opponents say violates the constitution and endangers a peace deal. Urging protesters to stay off the streets, Nkurunziza said the demonstrations were illegal and announced a new judiciary commission would investigate the "insurrectional movement". The U.N. said it was alarmed by reports intelligence and security agencies had used live ammunition during protests. |
| Thai junta reforms to fail without better charter - former PM | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Simon Webb BANGKOK (Reuters) - Any achievements by Thailand's ruling junta while in power will be lost without significant changes to the country's draft constitution, Democrat Party leader and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Friday. Abhisit said his party had "never had a problem" with Thaksin's Puea Thai Party but that it should take the opportunity to move away from the "Thaksin agenda".
|
| Pakistani military fires rare criticism at political leader | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - The Pakistani military on Friday lashed out at the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties, in rare censure of a civilian politician for his sharp criticism of the army. The dispute marks a low in deteriorating relations between the military and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which controls Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and richest city. "Altaf Hussain's speech on TV, containing remarks about the army and its leadership, was uncalled for and disgusting," military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said on his Twitter feed, referring to the leader of the MQM. "Such reference to army or its leadership as reaction to arrest of criminals, who may have links with any political party, won't be tolerated," he said, vowing to pursue the matter legally.
|
| UN urges action from Maldives over trial of ex-president | |  MALE/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday she had visited jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed for two hours in detention and urged the government to take action on his flawed trial. "We kind of started to get signals that even the government recognises that something went wrong with the process of the trial," Mona Rishmawi, chief of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch of the U.N. Human Rights Office, told a regular U.N. briefing. The country is increasingly polarised between Nasheed's supporters and those who back current President Abdulla Yameen, whose half-brother lost power to Nasheed in 2008, ending 30 years of authoritarian rule. Rishmawi said Nasheed's trial had been politically motivated and the Maldives legal system was "totally incomplete", with makeshift rules and judges wielding "incredible discretionary powers".
|
| Jimmy Carter: still causing a storm in his fight for women | |  By Lisa Anderson NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After more than 50 years in the public arena, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has shown he can still command people's attention - with a column on why he quit his church over women's rights going viral six years after it was published. Carter, 90, a Nobel Peace laureate and longtime human rights champion, has campaigned to end violence and discrimination against women since leaving the White House in 1981, calling it "the human and civil rights struggle of our time". Ensnared in religious beliefs and traditional customs that often trump civil law, women's rights are under constant assault across the globe, Carter told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment