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Organ Trafficking – A Growing Problem with No Easy Solutions
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Organ Trafficking – A Growing Problem with No Easy Solutions

The organ trade is a complex crime that is fuelled by the high demand for organ transplants and rising global inequalities. The root causes of the trade need to be addressed and stronger responses are needed to tackle the more organised and exploitative forms of the trade, writes Frederike Ambagtsheer for The Conversation. Organ trade…

Nigerian senator’s organ harvesting trial starts in UK
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Nigerian senator’s organ harvesting trial starts in UK

Nigeria’s former deputy senate president, his wife and daughter went on trial in a London court on Monday for allegedly plotting to harvest a street trader’s kidney.  Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu, their 25-year-old daughter Sonia and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, are accused of conspiring to exploit the man for his organ. The kidney was allegedly…

Organ Harvesting: Ekweremadu To Spend Christmas In UK Jail, As Court Adjourns Trial To May 2023
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Organ Harvesting: Ekweremadu To Spend Christmas In UK Jail, As Court Adjourns Trial To May 2023

Ike Ekweremadu Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice’s plea and trial hearing for organ trafficking, which was scheduled for Monday, have apparently been postponed, according to the Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey, in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu and his wife were accused of conspiring with Dr. Obinna Obeta to pay David…

Kevin Spacey Wants to Limit Testimony in Sex Assault Trial – Law & Crime
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Kevin Spacey Wants to Limit Testimony in Sex Assault Trial – Law & Crime

Lawyers for actor Kevin Spacey are trying to bar an expert who testified in Ghislaine Maxwell‘s criminal sex trafficking trial from testifying about the credibility of Spacey’s accuser in a civil sexual assault trial scheduled to begin next week. A memorandum filed Monday in the Southern District of New York calls psychologist Lisa Rocchio‘s expected…

Kevin Spacey Seeks to Limit Testimony of Expert Witness From Ghislaine Maxwell Case as His Own Civil Sexual Assault Trial Nears
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Kevin Spacey Seeks to Limit Testimony of Expert Witness From Ghislaine Maxwell Case as His Own Civil Sexual Assault Trial Nears

Actor Kevin Spacey leaves the Central Criminal Court on July 14, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.) Lawyers for actor Kevin Spacey are trying to bar an expert who testified in Ghislaine Maxwell‘s criminal sex trafficking trial from testifying about the credibility of Spacey’s accuser in a civil sexual assault trial scheduled…

Alleged organ harvesting: Court to rule in Ukpo’s application Dec. 5
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Alleged organ harvesting: Court to rule in Ukpo’s application Dec. 5

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ukpo, through his lawyer, Bamidele Igbinedion, had filed a motion on notice marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/984/202, urging the court to set aside the orders, directing some agencies of government and banks to release his biodata to Ekweremadu and his wife. Ukpo, who joined the Ekweremadus as applicants/respondents in the…