Judiciary

Buhari on Friday announced his decision to sign an executive order into law for “the practice of democracy”. Lawyers in Nigeria have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to show commitment to his newly signed executive order granting autonomy to states’ judiciary by directing the Accountant-General to credit state judicial accounts across the federation. Buhari on Friday announced his decision to sign ...

An Israeli court convicted on Monday an Israeli settler of three counts of murder over an arson attack that killed a Palestinian baby and his parents in a West Bank village in 2015. The Central District Court ruled that Amiram Ben-Uliel, an Israeli settler, hurled a firebomb that torched the house of Dawabshe family in the village of Duma. The ...

This file handout picture taken in 2012 in an undisclosed location and released on July 16, 2019, by Sciences Po university shows Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah as Iran confirmed her arrest without giving any details of her case, the latest in a long list of dual nationals held in the country’s prisons. Iran sentenced a French-Iranian academic to five years ...