Greece: relatives of train disaster victims witness start of trial
Relatives of the 57 victims of the 2023 Tempi train disaster have gathered in court in Larisa, seeking justice three years after Greece’s deadliest rail tragedy. The collision between passenger and freight trains…
USA: Zuckerberg in trial to assess addictive effects of social media
A major court case has just begun, designed to examine whether social media platforms are intentionally designed to keep children engaged in harmful ways. A young woman, ‘Kaley’, alleges that after she began…
Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday trial will proceed
The long-delayed trial of 'Soldier F’, the only veteran to face charges over the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972, will proceed after a Belfast judge ruled key statements from fellow soldiers admissible as…
PhD student guilty of raping ten women 'had fifty more victims'
Zhenhao Zou, a PhD engineering student at University College London, has been convicted of drugging and raping ten women. Authorities fear he may have attacked up to fifty more victims in the UK…
Tunisia: forty opposition figures put on trial
The trial has begun of forty prominent Tunisian opposition figures accused of conspiring against state security. The proceedings sparked outrage as nine detained defendants were forced to attend remotely, a move decried as…
USA: two possible setbacks for Trump
In New York, Donald Trump's efforts to dismiss the fraud case against him have been met with scepticism from judge Arthur Engoron. Trump is facing allegations of financial fraud related to his business…
Ten men charged with 76 crimes
Ten Rochdale men charged with 76 crimes appeared in court on 19 May as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation between 2003 and 2008. Jurors heard that the victims were 'mere…
USA: Derek Chauvin v George Floyd or White v Black?
Curtis Hayes, a community activist running for city council in Charlotte, said, ‘We have some of the most horrific mass murderers of our time in custody without a scratch, but this black man…
Salmond trial witness was ‘scared'
Alex Salmond is on trial for carrying out 14 sexual assaults on 10 women. He has pleaded not guilty to all 14 charges alleged to have happened while he was Scotland's first minister…
Iran: worsening persecution of believers
A report by the Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News showed that persecution worsened in 2016, with a steep rise in organised, government-sponsored anti-Christian campaigns on radio and television, combined with a vicious…
