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How Hactivists Can Help Fight Crime
The notorious international hacker group “Anonymous” has recently threatened to expose several law enforcement allies of Mexico's infamous Los Zetas drug cartel on the internet unless the Zetas release a kidnapped member of their hacker movement.
Updated: 11/03/2011 05:07A
Texas judge's daughter posts YouTube video of dad beating her
Tim Jayroe, police chief in William Adams' hometown of Rockport, a Gulf Coast community south of Houston, said on Wednesday he has asked the Texas Rangers to assist in investigating whether the video shows anything criminal happened.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:45A
Priming EFCC Within Its Mandate
That is the simple mandate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by the basic tenets of its establishment.Some mis-read the constitutional responsibility of the Commission with the one of the Law Courts or the judiciary as an arm of the
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:36A
Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution
"It is up to the UN Security Council and states to ensure that they face justice for the crimes for which they are charged," he said. Richard Dicker, director of the international justice program for Human Rights Watch, said although council members
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:31A
Maxwell Gillott Solicitors | Legal Aid still available for children with
At Maxwell Gillott, we have been spearheading a campaign to ensure that legal aid continues to provide advice and assistance for those on low incomes who are facing education law problems . The Government has finally published its bill on reforming
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:28A
New local enforcement laws to focus on education
Thanks to chapter 7 of 2010 of the criminal code, the Maltese legislative framework is already aligned with these treaties and conventions, Dr Mifsud Bonnici remarked. Dr Herrera noted that in the past years international cooperation between EU states
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:22A
Widow fears arrest if she wears husband's medals
But when she mentioned her desire to wear the medals to friends at the Royal Canadian Legion, where she sings in the choir, she was surprised to learn the practice is illegal. According to Section 419 of Criminal Code, it is against the law for anyone
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:21A
ICC looks into possible Nato crimes in Libya
There are two outstanding warrants of arrest but both suspects - Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi, the late dictator's brother-in-law and intelligence chief - have not been seen since. Ocampo said his office was "galvanizing efforts" to
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:19A
Mercenaries thought to be helping Gaddafi's son Saif
BARBARA MILLER: Dr Grant Niemann is Associate Dean at Flinders University School of Law, and was a trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Does he really think Moamar Gaddafi's son would turn himself in?
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:14A
Widow fears arrest for medals
According to Section 419 of Criminal Code, it is against the law for anyone other than a veteran to wear a military medal. "I knew that it was sort of frowned upon ... but I didn't realize that one could be arrested for wearing them," she said.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:14A
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