Crimes

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aytu? At?c? has submitted a law proposal to parliament demanding an increase in the penalties for convicts who commit crimes against women.

The law proposal, dubbed the "Özgecan Law" after murdered 19-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan, called on parliament to increase the penalties in sexual assault cases. 

The former intelligence chief of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Main Headquarters, Zdravko Tolimir, who was convicted of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, died in the Hague Tribunal’s detention unit.

President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday laid a wreath at the memorial to World War II genocide victims.

The ceremony, that included military and state honors, took place within the complex of the former concentration camp at the Old Fair Grounds in Belgrade.

There were at least 1,500 homicide victims in 2015 across Turkey in areas under surveillance by the police and where 86 percent of the country's population lives, police records have shown.

The figures indicated there was an increase of more than 2 percent over the homicide rate in 2014, while the biggest increase was in domestic violence-related femicides.  

The Prosecution for Organized Crime has indicted Nebojsa Covic and six others, N1 broadcaster said it learned on Monday.

The group is suspected of fraud involving the money intended for Serbs in Kosovo

A 20-year-old man from the village of Siget near Novi Knezevac, northern Serbia, has been placed under arrest for committing acts of domestic violence.

The man, E.L., attacked and lightly injured his mother and younger brother, the police said, the daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting.

The recent rulings from France's Constitutional Council about Holocaust denial and the Armenian incidents of 1915 are important from a couple of angles. 

An investigation has been launched into a theology professor at Trakya University for downloading and storing child pornography after the provincial police department in Edirne was tipped off by the FBI. 

The FBI warned Edirne's provincial police department and its cybercrimes unit that a resident had been downloading and storing child porn on his or her computer. 

Three New Zealanders have been arrested and convicted for participation in an international child exploitation ring following an investigation organized by the New Zealand police and America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in collaboration with law enforcement agencies in Greece as well as Australia, Canada, France, Romania, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom.

A Thai faces prison after being charged with lese majesty for insulting the king's dog, his lawyer said on Dec. 15, in an escalation of the already draconian royal defamation law.

Thanakorn Siripaiboon, 27, has been charged by police with lese majesty for a "satirical" Facebook post about the king and his dog, lawyer Pawinee Chumsri told AFP.