THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The United Nations' top court stopped short on Friday (Jan 26) of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza in a case accusing Israel of genocide in the tiny coastal enclave, but demanded that Israel try to limit deaths and damage caused by its military offensive there. South Africa brought the case, which goes...
PETALING JAYA: Police in Kemaman have arrested and remanded the mother of a 16-year-old who had claimed she was raped by an 18-year-old labourer earlier this month and that her stepfather was also involved. Magistrate Sharifah Amirda Shasha Amir Sharifuddin allowed an application by the police to remand the 43-year-old woman for seven days from Sunday...
KUALA LUMPUR: A former administrative assistant of a college was sentenced to a total of six years in prison and fined RM90,000 by the Sessions Court here Friday (Jan 19) after she was found guilty on charges of trafficking a 13-month-old baby boy and using forged documents to register the baby's birth four years ago. Judge...
KUALA LUMPUR: Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor (pic), who is facing two sedition charges, has applied to transfer his case from the Selayang Sessions Court to the Shah Alam High Court. Lawyer Awang Armadajaya Awang Mahmud, representing Muhammad Sanusi, said the application was filed yesterday (Jan 15) and was submitted to the...
PUTRAJAYA: The judiciary has been unjustly painted as a villain following the withdrawal of several criminal cases, although it was the Public Prosecutor that made the decision to drop the cases. Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the judiciary had been chastised for making consequential orders following the withdrawal of criminal cases, causing public...
TELUK INTAN: A total of 59 illegal immigrants were charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with entering the country without valid documents and overstaying. The 40 men and 19 women, comprising Indonesian and Nepali nationals, pleaded guilty to the charge before Sessions Court Judge Intan Nurul Farena Zainal Abidin. Thirty of the immigrants were charged with...
BUTTERWORTH: A single mother pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here on Wednesday(Dec 27) to 29 charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving more than RM350,000 belonging to a company. M. Vijairani, 44, made the plea after all the charges were read out before Judge Zulhazmi Abdullah. On all the charges, she was charged, as...
KUANTAN: An e-hailing driver pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Dec 27) to a charge of causing grievous hurt to a Chinese national. Mohd Sidek Saleh, 32, was charged with voluntarily causing serious injury to a finger on the woman's right hand by attacking her with a foldable chair. The offence was allegedly...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Thai woman was fined RM1,500 by the Magistrate's Court here on Wednesday (Dec 20) for offering sex to a policeman last week. Magistrate Illi Marisqa Khalizan handed down the sentence on Nipaporn Pharaphong, 24, who pleaded guilty to the charge. She paid the fine. She was charged with offering sex to the policeman for...
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution in Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's trial on Monday (Dec 18) told the High Court here that 1Malaysia Development Berhad's (1MDB) former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan would be called to testify in the case. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib said the prosecution is planning to call Loo after taking...
