The Instagram page, called trick_a_screw in a thinly veiled reference to fooling prison guards. (Image: Getty) Criminal gangs are “embarrassing” prison authorities by using legal loopholes and mundane items to smuggle WiFi devices and drugs into jails, experts warn. Instagram pages offer
France has used tough new immigration laws to expel a “radical” imam who made “unacceptable” comments about the country’s flag. Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi appeared to call the French flag “satanic” in a video widely shared on the internet earlier this week. Now
Dame Esther Rantzen has expressed her heartfelt thanks to more than 125,000 petition backers after the Government promised it “would not stand in the way” if MPs want to legalise assisted dying. The Childline founder, who sparked a passionate national debate by
Walking through the security gates I’ve seen so many times on TV felt incredibly surreal. Two years after my father shared his story and launched the Express’s assisted dying campaign, I was about to meet the Prime Minister and ask for his
Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, defended his government’s commitment to the rule of law on Tuesday. Mitsotakis hosted Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, as part of her tour of European Union capitals. Mitsotakis accused domestic opponents of tarnishing Greece’s
A cleaner sacked from her job at a posh London law firm for eating a leftover tuna and cucumber sandwich in a law firm kitchen says she feels “denigrated” by her “unfair and inhuman” treatment. Single mum Gabriela Rodriguez, 39, was given
A mum whose daughter committed suicide after relentless persecution, including violent assaults, at the hands of a brutal ex-boyfriend, is calling for a change in the law to offer better protection to potential future victims. Chloe Holland, 23, died last March after
A Dutch appeals court on Monday ordered the government to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel over concerns they were being used in violations of international law during Israel’s Gaza offensive. It said the state had to comply
Cameron Jay Ortis, a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for breaching the country’s secrets law. Ortis, 51, led the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Operations Research group, responsible for gathering classified information
The upper house of Russia’s parliament has unanimously endorsed a bill allowing confiscation of assets from those spreading deliberately false information about the military. The lower house also quickly approved the bill, and it is expected to be signed into law by