Tag: Courts
Retraction by key Filipino accuser triggers calls to free jailed senator
By Lian Buan in Manila
The retraction of Kerwin Espinosa, one of the main accusers in the Philippines Bilibid drug trade allegations, has drummed up...
Former priest, 82, jailed for 12 years over Timor-Leste child abuse
By Antonio Sampaio in Oecusse, Timor-Leste
Defrocked American priest Richard Daschbach, 82, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crimes of sexual...
‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged
RNZ Pacific
A group of citizens in New Caledonia has asked France's highest administrative court to postpone next Sunday's third and final independence referendum.
In an...
The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist
Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand...
PNG courts close for a week after judge tests covid positive
Asia Pacific Report
Papua New Guinea's Supreme and National Courts in Port Moresby will be partially closed for a week beginning yesterday after a judge...
Christchurch mosque attacks: Accused gunman appears in court via video link
By RNZ News
The man charged over the Christchurch mosque shootings last month appeared in the High Court in Christchurch today, accused of killing 50...
Fiji police grill magazine ex-publisher, director, journalist over story
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Islands Business managing director Samisoni Pareti and journalist Nanise Volau have been questioned by Fiji police over a story published online...
The ‘battle of Paga Hill’ – controversial PNG doco finally on...
When the police roll in with bulldozers to clear a waterfront residential area in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby and make space for...
‘No one can stop me’, says Duterte on possible martial law...
Al Jazeera's Jamela Alingogan reports from Manila on a game-changing president marking six months in office. Video: AJ YouTube
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said...
Somare’s answer to Singapore claims: ‘I have never received inducements or...
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
The founding father of Papua New Guinea, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has maintained that at no time in...
UPNG lifts suspension of classes, to resume semester on June 13
Ruth Rungala of EM TV News reports on the National Court granting students right to seek a judicial review of UPNG's eviction order last...
PNG’s national court orders temporary stay on student eviction
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
A temporary stay against the eviction of University of Papua New Guinea students from both the Waigani and Taurama...
Court dismisses PNG police chief’s bid to block judicial review
An appeal by Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner Gari Baki against a judicial review on the suspension of Thomas Eluh and the termination of...
O’Neill replies to PNG university student petitions but seeks ‘advice’
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has responded to petitions presented to him by students at the two major universities...
Defence recruit foreign lawyers for Vanuatu conspiracy case
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Two lawyers from Australia have been taken on board the defence team representing 11 of the jailed Vanuatu politicians...
Karakia in NZ schools under threat from court action
Dr Paul Moon, professor of history at Auckland University of Technology's Te Ara Poutama, says that a recent failed court action to ban Bible...
PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...
PM O’Neill accuses Somare and Morauta of political ‘sour grapes’
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...
PNG judge arrested, charged with judicial corruption
Anti-corruption police have arrested and charged a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court judge with judicial corruption, reports Loop PNG.
Judge Bernard Sakora, 68, of the...
Martial law victim : ‘I wasn’t thinking of dying, I was...
From InterAksyon.com
ARCHIVE: Flashback to the declaration of Martial Law on September 21, 1972: InterAksyon.com posted a series of testimonies from human rights victims of...
