“Stronger legislation can help deter potential and repeat offenders and expand the range of investigative tools and resources for law enforcement to stop crimes that affect the environment,” said Angela Me, Chief of Research and Analysis at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), presenting the report. Launched in Vienna, ‘The Landscape of Criminalization’…
The main suspect in the European Parliament bribery legislation will soon be put under house arrest from prison to his apartment after cooperating with the investigation. This has been reported in local media reports. According to the published details, former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, the well-known figure in the “Qatari Gate” legislation in exchange…
“The imposition of the death penalty based on such legislation is per se an arbitrary killing and a breach of article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),” the experts said, noting that Ugandan politicians had been made aware of this on previous occasions in recent years. The harsh anti-LGBT laws approved by a majority…
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted a gift worth 270,000; Photo: File Tel Aviv: The Israeli cabinet approved a new law to allow Prime Minister-elect Netanyahu to keep a $270,000 gift he received from a late relative. According to the international news organization, the High Court of Israel ruled last year that as Prime Minister, Netanyahu…
