RICHMOND, Va. (June 23) – The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It was an unremarkable ceremony – except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not have been a woman. Now authorities in Virginia, […]
Crime Without Punishment
By Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade "I don’t remember a day without beating and terror. We were in impossible conditions, tortured physically and mentally." Zoran Sangut, head of the NGO Vukovar 1991, last month spoke of the suffering he endured in prisoner-of-war camps run by the Yugoslav army, JNA, in Serbia during the early Nineties. His […]
Mugabe Turns Screw on Rights Activists and Lawyers
New wave of repression as Mugabe prepares for second round of leadership contest. By Jabu Shoko in Harare President Robert Mugabe is heaping pressure on the country’s civil society organisations and the human rights lawyers who represent them ahead of the presidential run-off later this month. On June 5, Zimbabwe’s public service minister Nicholas Goche […]
The Pachyderms
I do not understand why people in the bureaucracy down to the rank and file have one common trait: Shameless. The pachyderms (thick skinned government officials and rank and file in the bureaucracy) do their thing in full view of the public who conduct transactions in government buildings which is the center of respect and […]
UK Indian Millionaire convicted for fraud and jailed for Nine and a Half years
A British Indian business man, Virendra Rastogi was found guilty of defrauding some 20 banks across the Atlantic of more than 350 million pounds, one of the biggest frauds in recent banking history. After a seven years investigation and trial, Rastogi and his associates were convicted for running an ‘incestuous empire’ of fictitious firms. The […]
Belgrade Dismisses Croatia Genocide Claim
Serbia tells ICJ judges that crimes in Croatian war of independence were not genocidal. By IWPR and RFE staff in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and The Hague (TU No 553, 30-May-08) At a preliminary hearing in Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia at the International Court of Justice, ICJ, Belgrade’s representatives said this week that both sides […]
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