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Charges regarding the death of a detained Sri Lankan woman have been withdrawn once more.
Prosecutors in Nagoya, Japan, announced on Friday that they have decided not to indict officials at an immigration center in the city's central region over the death of a Sri Lankan detainee in 2021, despite her family's repeated appeals for their indictment.
The decision by the...
It is 'alarming' that six Indian detainees have died in Pakistan in the past nine months
Five of the six inmates who died, according to MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, were fisherman.
To paraphrase Bagchi, all of the inmates have served their time.
The MEA spokeswoman added that India had raised the issue of prisoners' deaths with Islamabad.
With re...
Ten are detained in Singapore for selling illegal bunker fuel
Ten persons have been detained by Singaporean police on suspicion of selling bunker fuel illegally.
The arrests were made on August 4 during a joint operation with the Singapore Maritime and Port Authority by Police Coast Guard officers. Six of the crew members worked on a tugboat flyin...
Authorities in Singapore detain 10 guys for an illegal MGO transaction
Ten individuals have been detained in Singapore on suspicion of taking part in an unauthorised sale of marine gas oil (MGO).
Off Southern Tuas Basin, police from the Police Coast Guard (PCG) detained eight crew members of tugboats registered in Singapore and abroad as part of a combined...
Indian Detained in Connection With Singapore Refinery Petroleum Theft Case
A court sentenced the individual to four weeks in prison and issued a punishment order for SGD 4,046.70, which is equal in local currency to the amount of the bribe.
According to a media report, a 39-year-old Indian national in Singapore was sentenced to four weeks in jail and told to p...
Political detainees under military and police custody are being tortured in Sri Lanka
Highlights
- Political detainees being tortured while in police and military custody
- The government denied the accusations
A human rights lawyer, wrote a report on the abuse of political detainees in Sri Lanka. These people are being t...
CHINA ARRESTED CANADIANS TO GO UNDER COURT TRIALS THIS WEEK
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- China arrested Canadians to go under court trials this week.
- The two Canadians have been under the suspicion of espionage.
- The two men were arrested in December 2018 after Canadian police detained Huawei’s Meng Wanz...
CHINA ARRESTS BLOOMBERG JOURNO ON ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
- A journalist employed with Bloomberg News in Beijing has been arrested on suspicion of thwarting national security, authorities in the Chinese capital said.
- Bloomberg confirmed the vanishing of the employee, Haze Fan, in a breaking news article.
A spokes...
SHINJUKU POLICE STATION MAY TEMPORARILY CLOSE CELLS OVER RISING COVID-19 CASES
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- Shinjuku Police Station may temporarily close cells over rising COVID-19 cases.
- 12 detainees at the police station contracted the novel coronavirus.
- The total number of infections at the facility has increased to 17 this ...
HIROSHIMA COURT ORDERED THE STATE TO PAY $6,340 OVER DEATH ROW OF AN INMATE
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- Hiroshima Court ordered the state to pay $6,340 over death row of an inmate.
- The plaintiff’s lawyer had demanded the govt. to pay him and the deceased 3.3 million yen as compensation.
- The presiding judge for the cas...
SINGAPOREAN MAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN YEMEN WAR AND ROLE AS ACCOMPLICE TO FOREIGN POWERS
HIGHLIGHTS
- A Singaporean man has been confined under the Internal Security Act for partaking in the Yemen common war and working for an unfamiliar organization as a paid specialist while in the Middle Eastern nation, said the Internal Security Department (ISD)
DETAINEES, ON TERRORISM GROUNDS, IN IRAQ TO FACE MASS EXECUTION
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- About 50 detainees in Iraq face conceivable execution on Monday following conviction on psychological oppression related wrongdoings in uncalled for preliminaries, as per the United Nations common freedoms specialists
In a joint asse...
DETAINED HONG KONGERS LETTERS TO FAMILIES ARE CHINESE AUTHORITIES WORD
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- Hong Kongers kept in China for almost three months have at last send letters to their families, yet a worry has proposed that Chinese authorities directed the messages, which stress how well the detainees are being dealt with
Seven o...
12 HONG KONGERS CAPTURED DETAINEES LAWYER ASKED TO DROP THE CASE BY CHINESE BUREAUCRATS
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- China's Ministry of Justice has requested in any event five attorneys to end their meetings with the Hongkongers who were kept in Shenzhen after being captured by coast watches
The attorneys named by prisoners' families in Ho...
TERRORIST CHARGED FOR HIDING HIS DUAL CITIZENSHIP UNDER PASSPORT ACTS SINGAPORE
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- A man who was kept in 2016 under the Internal Security Act was charged with lying in his passport application.
Mohamad Shariff Zulfikar, a 49-year-old Australian and previous Singapore resident, was charged in the State Courts with o...
HONG KONG DETAINEE FAMILIES WANTS A CALL TO KNOW THEIR WHEREABOUTS
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- People whose relatives were caught in a pontoon to Taiwan in China’s maritime zone want a word with their loved ones on Wed.
Out of 12, 10 are facing charges for protesting against the government. They were caught on a ship fle...
AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS PULLED OUT OF CHINA OVERNIGHT
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- Two Australian columnists were hurried out of China in a short span after Chinese police inquired them, their managers said Tuesday.
Australian Financial Review reporter Michael Smith took this action after China confined a prominent...
CHINESE TURNED AUSTRALIAN ANCHOR IN CHINA DETAINED
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- An Australian resident working as an anchor on a Chinese TV news channel detained in mid-August as the problems between the nations escalate.
The Australian government was informed on 14 August that Cheng Lei, a television news chann...
CHINA SHOULD RELEASE THE CANADIANS: POMPEO
Highlights:
- The United States is urging China to release two detained Canadians as they consider the charges groundless.
- Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China soon after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei,...