Furthering

TIL that in some European parliaments, the members can be tried for crimes but don't suffer the consequences because of "immunity."

However, in some cases, the ballot shows what crimes they've been tried for so that people have that info when they vote.

#TIL #Europe #EU #Crime

Nonilex

[taking a page from #Trump’s script] #LePen's right-hand man, #RN president Jordan #Bardella, said: "Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was unjustly convicted: It was French #democracy that was killed".

[She embezzled. That’s a #crime. When you commit a crime, & it’s proven in a court of #law, you face penalties. Period. Just like Trump committed his proven crimes. But the #US let him run anyway, so he faced no repercussions by winning. The US system failed where #France’s system held.]

Mar 31, 2025, 14:26 · · · 0 · 0
Global News

‘It’s unacceptable to do that to anybody’: AFN Chief renews call for inquiry into landfill response
The Assembly of First Nations is renewing calls for an inquiry into the deaths of four Indigenous women.
#politics #death #inquiry #Crime #AFN #landfillsearch
globalnews.ca/news/11103420/it

Nonilex

…Why was she handcuffed & pulled off the street? She had not committed a #crime; she did not present a danger. She could have been notified of the change in her #visa status by mail, given instructions to leave the country promptly, & given a deadline with which to comply.

But merely pulling #RumeysaOzturk’s visa wasn’t the point. Even having Ozturk leave the country wasn’t the point. The point was to arrest her.

#Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #HumanRights #Authoritarianism #DualState

RonSupportsYou

Jesse Lee: "Meals on Wheels has to be gutted because food for disabled seniors is too wasteful, but there is plenty of money for Trump’s #January6th mob of police attackers (who Trump wants our government to pay)."
#injustice #crime #hunger #ElderAbuse #priorities #politics

Jan Penfrat

The 🇵🇱 Polish government has suggested new EU rules to ban the #anonymous purchase of #prepaid #SIMcards.

“The main threat associated with prepaid SIM cards is #anonymity,” says a document obtained by @statewatch and one cannot make one's disdain for #humanrights any clearer.

Extensive research has found no evidence that bans on anonymous purchases of SIM cards contribute to reducing #crime.

statewatch.org/news/2025/march

#digitalrights

Statewatch | EU officials discuss banning anonymous use of mobile phones

The Polish government has suggested new EU rules to…

www.statewatch.org
Global News

Charges laid after police say hijab-wearing woman was attacked in Ontario library
Municipal officials in an Ontario town say they are horrified following a police report that a hijab-wearing woman was attacked in a public library.
#attack #police #hijab #library #Ontario #Crime
globalnews.ca/news/11094901/hi

Global News National

B.C. court voids ‘cult’ marriage, finding young woman didn’t ‘truly consent’ to it
The ruling found the marriage voidable, saying the man 'pursued, harassed, and perhaps even stalked' the teenager who was under duress when the wedding occurred in Abbotsford, B.C.
#law #marriage #cult #BC #Abbotsford #Crime
globalnews.ca/news/11093848/b-

Steve Thompson PhD

Federal Lawsuit Says Trump Administration Has Unlawfully Shuttered the Voice of America

time.com/7270764/federal-lawsu

A lawsuit filed late Friday accuses the Trump Administration of unlawfully shutting down the Voice of America and asks a federal court to restore the outlet that for decades has supplied news about the United States to nations around the world — including many that lack a free press of their own.

#TRUMP #CRIME #GOP #MAGA #VOA #LAWSUIT #PRESS

Federal Lawsuit Says Trump Administration Has Unlawfully Shuttered the Voice of America

A lawsuit filed late Friday accuses the Trump Administration…

Time
janhoglund

Trump’s links to the underworld were multifarious. As were those of his nearest business partners.
—Luke Harding, Collusion
#trump #crime