DPO, officers harass chief magistrate, beat up lawyers during court session

A Chief Magistrate was harassed for discharging three armed robbery suspects while two defense lawyers were beating for defending the suspects. Punch reports that the unbelievable incident occurred in the Umuneke Ngor Magistrate’s Court in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. According to the report, the Chief …

Trump unpatriotic lapdog for Purtin plus Video

Why I’m No Longer a Russiagate Skeptic Facts are piling up, and it’s getting harder to deny what’s staring us in the face. Politico illustration/Getty and iStock When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 …

Interview: Gabriella Bettiga on exceptional circumstances applications By Conor James McKinney

The Immigration Rules provide that somebody who wishes to stay in the UK on the basis of their family ties but does not otherwise meet the requirements of Appendix FM can argue that there are “exceptional circumstances”. Paragraph GEN.3.2.(2) says that: …the decision-maker must consider, on the basis of the information provided by the applicant, whether …

Zimbabwe is signing up for China’s surveillance state, but its citizens will pay the price. By Amy Hawkins

(Xuanyu Han/Getty Images/iStock photo/Foreign Policy illustration) Daily life in China is gated by security technology, from the body scanners and X-ray machines at every urban metro station to the demand for ID numbers on social media platforms so that dangerous speech can be traced and punished. Technologies once seen as potentially empowering the public have …