Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 18, rejected two bids to overturn a controversial piece of legislation that severely restricts LGBTQ rights, which lawmakers adopted earlier this year. Lawmakers approved the Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill in February, drawing international condemnation despite receiving widespread public support in the conservative West African country. The proposed legislation stipulates jail terms …
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New York judge upholds Trump?s hush money conviction
New York Judge, Juan Merchan has ruled that President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction is valid. The judge rejected Trump’s argument that it should be dismissed in the wake of a landmark immunity ruling from the US Supreme Court. The ruling comes after Trump and his lawyers requested Merchan overturn his guilty verdict in New York v. Trump, citing …
Read More »California court upholds conviction of rapper Nipsey Hussle’s killer
A California court has upheld Eric Ronald Holder’s first-degree murder conviction for shooting rapper Nipsey Hussle outside the musician’s South Los Angeles clothing store.Holder Jr., now 34, is serving a 60-years-to-life state prison sentence for the March 31, 2019, killing of the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name was Ermias Joseph Asghedom.In its 25-page ruling, the three-justice panel from California’s 2nd …
Read More »Spanish Court upholds fine for nud3 police station visitor
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a €1,080 fine imposed on a man who appeared n@ked at a police station in Valencia and refused repeated requests to put on clothes. The man, identified in Spanish media as Alejandro Colomar, had entered the station on August 20, 2020, to file a complaint, despite having clothes in his backpack. Although public …
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