https://sagire.online/topic/justice/ Articles and notes about Justice. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/628a56fc/https://sagire.online/wire/628a56fc/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate indicted former Politburo member Ma Xingrui on charges of taking bribes, state news agency Xinhua said. Prosecutors in Yichang, a city in the central province of Hubei, accused Ma of using his leadership positions to accept “exceptionally large” bribes and to secure benefits for others. Ma had been named to the Politburo in 2022 and his downfall became public in April, when authorities said he was being investigated for severe violations of party discipline and national laws.ChinaEast AsiaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/73d0d02a/https://sagire.online/wire/73d0d02a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:24:00 -0300Venezuela’s National Assembly approved on Tuesday, in a first reading, the bill for a partial reform of the Constitutional Law against Hatred, at the request of the executive. The reform replaces prison sentences with fines and community work and sets out clear administrative procedures for applying the law; the text drops the word “hatred” and is to be renamed the Law for Democratic Coexistence, Peace and Coexistence. Opposition lawmaker Amelia Belisario said the law “served to persecute dissent.” The non-governmental organization Espacio Público warned that the reform keeps mechanisms that can restrict freedom of expression, by leaving sanctioning procedures in the hands of the ministry with jurisdiction over justice.VenezuelaJusticePress freedom https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300A Hong Kong court sentenced activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to “foreign collusion,” his second conviction under a national security law. The sentence stems from the global campaign to instigate sanctions against mainland China and Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Wong was already serving a sentence for subversion in the primary election case and was charged alongside his former party colleague Nathan Law and other activists. Foreign consuls attended the hearing, with a heavy police presence and a large crowd of media outside the court.ChinaHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/2c42b637/https://sagire.online/wire/2c42b637/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300In the enlargement report published on November 4, 2026, the European Commission downgraded its assessment of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms from “some progress” to “limited progress.” The document records that anti-corruption bodies increased the number of investigations, prosecutions and convictions in high-level corruption cases, while some priority legislative reforms remain outstanding. The final version of Brussels’ communication removed a reference, present in the draft, to reforms slowing down, according to RFE/RL’s reporting.UkraineEuropean UnionJusticeEastern Europe https://sagire.online/chile-rabat-acusacao-adiada/https://sagire.online/chile-rabat-acusacao-adiada/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:54:00 -0300The opposition promised a constitutional accusation against Justice Minister Fernando Rabat over 56 commutations of sentence for sexual crimes against minors, and did not file it in the week its own calendar had set. The votes are the reason: 78 are needed, 62 are counted, and 14 deputies of the Partido de la Gente hold the difference.ChileLatin AmericaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:00 -0300High Court Judge William Tam has set 9:30 a.m. this Thursday for the sentencing of Joshua Wong for foreign collusion, in a hearing lasting about 30 minutes. Wong pleaded guilty in September and faces a prison term ranging from three years to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with external forces to endanger national security. The 30-year-old activist is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term. Before the new charge, lawyer Derek Chan told the court Wong had been due for release in January 2027.ChinaJusticeHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/56a344ec/https://sagire.online/wire/56a344ec/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:00 -0300The NABU has dismantled a criminal network running fraudulent call centers and drug sales with the support of senior SBU, police and Prosecutor General's Office officials, according to TASS, citing Ukrainska Pravda — dozens of raids were carried out on Wednesday in Operation Carthage. Vladimir Tsenov, first deputy chief of the national police's strategic investigations department, known by the codename “Price”, was detained. SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, according to Le Monde.UkraineJustice https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:24:00 -0300Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during last year’s anti-corruption protests in Belgrade, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The Interior Ministry said the suspects, from an elite unit, tortured and intimidated people detained in the garage of a government compound in downtown Belgrade on August 14-15, 2025. According to the statement, by using force and threats they inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a larger number of people to obtain information from them and to intimidate and unlawfully punish them. These were the first major arrests in connection with violence against the protesters who took to the streets over the past two years, and the ministry released only the detainees’ initials. The protests swept the country, a candidate for European Union (EU) membership, in 2025 and 2026, after 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024.SerbiaProtestsHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/d92d2af8/https://sagire.online/wire/d92d2af8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:23:00 -0300According to Sputnik, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said that officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the police and the Prosecutor General's Office were involved in providing protection to fraudulent call centers, and that during searches authorized by the High Anti-Corruption Court an SBU official threatened the agents with a weapon and obstructed the work. Ukraine's National Police said it had suspended the officers targeted by the searches pending an internal investigation. According to Le Monde, SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, which involves members of the secret services, the Prosecutor General's Office and the police.UkraineJustice https://sagire.online/wire/f05f243a/https://sagire.online/wire/f05f243a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300Armenia's National Security Service detained Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the opposition Strong Armenia bloc, after searches at his homes, according to TASS. Armenia's Investigative Committee confirmed searches at 65 addresses, including properties linked to his nephew Narek Karapetyan, head of the bloc's parliamentary group. The detention is part of a criminal investigation into abuse of authority at his businesses that allegedly caused losses of around $179 million to Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), according to the committee.ArmeniaPolitical crisisJustice https://sagire.online/wire/41df22c9/https://sagire.online/wire/41df22c9/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:22:00 -0300The Hamburg Higher Regional Court has scheduled 19 more hearings between February and June 2027, extending until at least mid-2027 the trial over the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, court press spokeswoman Judge Mareike Franzen said. Sergey Kuznetsov, a former special operations officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is standing trial, charged with a war crime, carrying out explosions, destroying structures and disrupting the operations of public utilities. He was detained in Italy in August 2025 and extradited to Germany.GermanyJusticeEnergyRussia https://sagire.online/wire/820aebe0/https://sagire.online/wire/820aebe0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:23:00 -0300Former US contractor Abraham Teklu Lemma admitted sharing dozens of classified documents and photographs with Ethiopian officials over more than two years, according to the US Department of Justice. He worked as a contractor at the State Department, the Justice Department and the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for US intelligence satellites. The material included satellite imagery and details of military activities, passed on through encrypted messages, and the FBI said Ethiopian officials used the intelligence in military operations. In one message to an Ethiopian official in December 2021, Lemma wrote that “we have to finish these people once and for all,” because otherwise there would never be peace in Ethiopia, and later that day he urged the official to send drones. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, faces sentencing on April 14, 2027, and could get up to 22 years in prison.EthiopiaUnited StatesJusticeHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/dccdb879/https://sagire.online/wire/dccdb879/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:23:00 -0300The Seoul High Court on Wednesday upheld the sentence invalidating former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s 2022 election victory and exposing the People Power Party to returning 39.7 billion won ($27 million) in campaign expenses: 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for false campaign statements — denying he introduced a lawyer to the former Yongsan tax chief and saying he never met shaman Jeon Seong-bae with his wife, Kim Keon Hee — with the invalidation taking effect if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling.South KoreaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/1be91fa4/https://sagire.online/wire/1be91fa4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300The United Kingdom Supreme Court began hearing the appeal on Wednesday from Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori against the government’s designation of the group as a terrorist organization. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Permission to appeal was granted only on the argument that the proscription is compatible with Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); the argument on the interpretation and application of the Home Secretary’s policy was refused. The proscription was announced to Parliament on June 23, 2025, and came into effect on July 5, 2025, under the Terrorism Act 2000. More than 300 supporters of the group were arrested by London police on Saturday for displaying placards bearing the now-prohibited slogan. The defense argues that only three of the 385 actions undertaken by the group over five years were assessed as meeting the definition of terrorism.United KingdomPalestineJusticeHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/dc166955/https://sagire.online/wire/dc166955/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 23:25:00 -0300Party presidents and opposition lawmakers delivered a letter to President José Antonio Kast at the La Moneda palace demanding the removal of Justice Minister Fernando Rabat. The case involves the reduction of sentences for 56 people convicted of sexual abuse against minors, which has already cost the ministry’s undersecretary, Luis Silva, his post. In a special session of the Chamber of Deputies, Rabat acknowledged “a gap in the procedure, by not listening to the victims,” and the opposition announced a constitutional accusation against him.ChileJusticePolitical crisis