President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 808 convict prisoners with immediate effect as part of measures to contain the COVID -19 outbreak. The decision, taken in accordance with Article 72 (1) of […]
A Shari’a Court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna has sentenced a housewife, Mariya Muhammad, to two weeks imprisonment without an option of fine for calling her neighbour, Hajiya Karima Sani, a prostitute. The Judge, Dahiru Bamalli, sentenced […]
Two men who allegedly robbed a prostitute they had arranged to have sex with at Nungua near Accra have been put before the Accra circuit court on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery. […]
The Ghana Prisons Service has asked all Prisons establishments in the country to suspend leave of officers with immediate effect and recall officers on leave for immediate deployment. The move, one of several arrangements to […]
Ghana’s international footballer and Newcastle United star, Christian Atsu has freed 10 prisoners by paying for their court fines. The Ghana international has given the freedom to the inmates of the Cape Coast Prison Annex. Reports […]
A 35 year old cobbler has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Juaso Circuit Court for assaulting an employee of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) who had gone to his house to […]
The supervising judge in charge of the Justice For All Programme and justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Clemence Honyenuga, is appealing to President Akufo-Addo to exercise his prerogative powers of mercy to decongest […]
A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 171 people in what is considered one of the worst atrocities in the country’s civil war. Prosecutors said former […]
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