Courts and Justice

G. Floyd jury selection
The jury selection process is expected to take three weeks. Opening arguments will begin no earlier than March 29 in the Chauvin trial (Hennepin County, ..

Senegal/ Opposition leader
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been indicted and released on bail Monday under judicial supervision as he faces a rape accusation. He’s at his home ..

Nigeria’s Shia leader Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky
The trial of Nigeria’s Shia leader Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky and his wife Malam Zeenat Ibrahim to resume in the northwestern city of Kaduna.

Malawi/Preacher extradition
Bushiri, a millionaire and self-proclaimed prophet, runs churches from Ghana to South Africa and has drawn crowds of 90,000+ to his open-air gatherings. He and ..

George Floyd/Jury selection
Jury selection begins in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 25 killing of George Floyd. Chauvin is charged with ..

South African Chief Justice ordered to apologise for pro-Israel statements

France/Air France court hearing
The case is brought by family groups who argue that the investigation into Air France / Airbus should never have been dropped. The hearing will ..

Digital rights in Bangladesh
A bail plea will be heard in Bangladeshi court for another activist and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore who had criticised the government for handling the ..

Poland judicial review
The European Court of Justice rules in the case challenging the removal of judicial review for appointments to the Polish Supreme Court. An opinion in ..

Caster Semenya takes case to European Court of Human Rights

Human rights groups critical of Begum judgment
