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Tashiev and the Letter of 75: Charges Reclassified, Sentences Lessened, Confusion Reigns
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (656+ words) Both Tashiev’s lawyers and the prosecutors filed appeals after the July verdict, the former seeking complete acquittal and the latter harsher sentencing. Neither has gotten what they asked for. When the trial of the former head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee…...
Vietnam Sentences 11 to Death in Country’s Largest Ever Drug Trafficking Case
1+ week, 3+ day ago (495+ words) The case dates back to March 2023, when four flight attendants were caught carrying narcotics hidden in toothpaste tubes on a flight from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City. A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced 11 people to death and 19 to life imprisonment…...
Sri Lanka’s New Anti-Terrorism Legislation
1+ week, 6+ day ago (647+ words) A law that cannot turn intelligence into evidence will reproduce the central weakness of the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1979, regardless of how much power it gives the state. Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has approved a bill to replace the Prevention…...
‘Tortured and Shot’: Survivors Recall Massacre of 70 Men by Myanmar Military in 2024
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1748+ words) Soldiers told survivors that the massacre in Byain Phyu was retaliation for the defeat and casualties the military suffered at the hands of the Arakan Army in the Battle for Kyauktaw. Survivors of the 2024 massacre in Byain Phyu village sit…...