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German court sentences Russian man who plotted to kill Chechen critic

A Russian citizen who plotted the assassination of a Chechen dissident living in German exile was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday by a court in Munich, writes German news agency DPA. The convicted man, identified only as Valid D, had plotted to kill Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov on the orders of a cousin of Chechen strongman ruler Ramzan Kadyrov,...

Violence against women is on the rise in Mexico. How do Mexicans perceive it?

This story by Timothy S. Rich, Alianna Casas and Carolyn Brueggemann originally appeared on Global Voices on August 2, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.   In Mexico, femicides increased by 137 percent between 2015 and 2020, with the government only formally tracking femicides as a specific crime in 2012. Mexico’s justice system remains woefully ineffective as only 27 percent...

Top 5 cases of disinformation on the Special Prosecutor’s Office in 2018

As of its establishing until today, there are numerous false news, manipulations and disinformation related to the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, especially about the three public prosecutors, who led the press conferences where investigations and indictments were announced and reviewed and elaborated by the SPO, who were always the targets of attempts for personal discredit via articles whose purpose...