A man in China was sentenced to four years in prison after he accidentally threw his six-month-old daughter out of their flat window, resulting in her death and sending shock waves through the community. A court in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of Western China recently sentenced the father, surnamed Zhao, for manslaughter, as reported…
Mystery surrounds a female celebrity who is alleged to have watched rappers Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z rape a 13-year-old girl. The female celebrity is not named in an amended lawsuit, which was filed in New York federal court on Sunday. The alleged victim says that she instantly recognized the female celebrity when she came…
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, on Sunday if he had any concerns about President Joe Biden‘s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Last Sunday, Biden issued a pardon for his son that not only covered his federal felony gun and tax convictions but also any other “offenses against the…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has sought to explain his past statements on the national security law expressed in articles and interviews with foreign media outlets before the legislation took effect, as he returned to court on Tuesday for a ninth day of verbal testimony in his high-profile trial. Lai, 77, has…
A Hong Kong construction worker has been jailed for 15 years for manslaughter and arson after killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, with the presiding High Court judge saying the sentence must reflect the gravity of the “brutal acts” he committed. Standing in the dock on Friday, 65-year-old Iu Wai-cheung wiped away tears…
President-elect Donald Trump‘s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s legal fight against the Biden administration. Kennedy, whom Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has been locked in a legal battle with President Joe Biden‘s administration, which seeks to remove Kennedy’s statements opposing COVID-19…
Text size Photos by Justin Tallis. Video by Yelim Lee The son of the Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai said Tuesday that his father’s trial in the Chinese territory was a “sham” but that he was “proud” of how he was handling himself in court. The 76-year-old media tycoon has been testifying for three…
The Hong Kong LGBTQ community’s fight for rights has wended its way through the city’s court system Aaron TAM Text size Hong Kong’s LGBTQ community has long resorted to the courts to fight for equality and rights protection — and that strategy has gradually paid off over the past decade. The Chinese city still does…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has revealed he had access to “internal” US government information but denied a former top aide’s allegation he had pressured his now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid to draft a sanctions list for Washington after Hong Kong adopted the 2020 national security law. Lai, 76, returned to the witness box on…
The sentences handed down to former opposition activists in Hong Kong’s landmark national security case on Tuesday were proportionate, neither too lenient nor overly harsh, given the court’s decision that the plot they hatched undermined national security and was tantamount to wanting to overthrow the government, some legal experts have said. The experts contacted by…