gang,mob,pack,ring- an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" underworld- the criminal class Sicilian Mafia,Maffia,Mafia- a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the ...
Police have arrested two suspected Korean fugitives who have been hiding in the Philippines to escape criminal prosecution in their country. 2 South Korean fugitives nabbed in Cebu has put a temporary pause on referring undocumented parents traveling with their children for criminal prosecution after th...
Congress also has used the contempt power in conflicts with private parties and the Executive Branch of government. For instance, business partners of Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines, produced documents for the House Foreign Affairs Committee only under threat of contempt citation...
Concerning the International Criminal Court, Plachta discussed the Philippine government’s cutting contact with the ICC over the “war on drugs” investigation as well as the ICC Appeal Chamber authorizing the investigation on drug war killings in the Philippines. Maghsoodnia discussed the ICC’s ad...
Liane Alampay of the Psychological Association of the Philippines echoed Unicef's remark, saying that the problem on juvenile delinquency will not be solved by lowering the age threshold of criminal liability, but by stronger implementation of the law. Unicef calls for stronger implementation of juve...
The present article follows upon a previous one dealing with the discrimination of Arab defendants in Israel. If focuses on the effect of wartime on this d