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A staff member of the Braga Sapador Firefighters claims that Nuno Osório installed a camera pointed at her workstation and isolated her with a glass partition next to her desk.
The defendant slapped a 4-year-old child in front of other children and a mother.
Daniel Soares denies the police version of events and alleges that the officers' behaviour changed as soon as they became aware of his homosexuality.
Daniel Soares denies the police version of events and alleges that the officers' behaviour changed as soon as they became aware of his homosexuality.
The director of the newspaper Página Um was acquitted today of the crime of defamation regarding texts related to Henrique Gouveia e Melo, as well as charges of slander, false advertising, and offending an organization concerning the Portuguese Medical Association.
The former minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being corrupted by former banker Ricardo Salgado.
The accusation states that the mistreatment occurred between 2023 and 2024 and that the three elderly women were slapped. The accused remained silent in court.
The cases date back to 2018 and 2019. The soldiers were convicted for assaulting Southeast Asian immigrants and filming the incidents. One of their lawyers will request a habeas corpus.
The case involves 35 defendants, including individuals and companies, accused of crimes such as human trafficking, criminal association, and aiding illegal immigration.
José, 35, had already confessed the crime to the authorities.
The ringleaders were given 10 years' imprisonment each.
Raquel Machado Faísca says the link to Mário Machado exists because he 'is the father of her youngest daughter.' The defendant claims that the Portuguese justice system has been 'unfair' to her former partner.
GNR officers from Tavira, who are under house arrest, are accused of a total of 27 crimes. They allegedly forced victims to pay fines for fabricated road-traffic offences.
Carla da Silva, sentenced in May 2024 to 21 years for conspiracy, was released on Sunday. The region continues to monitor the case of citizens detained for political reasons.
The Portuguese–Venezuelan, freed after six years, praises consular support but compares Portugal’s efforts with those of Spain and France. She says she was sentenced to 21 years over 'Operation Gedeon' without evidence.
Carla da Silva “was tortured in the worst ways we can imagine”, revealed the president of the PSD/Madeira Emigrants' Committee in an interview with RTP Notícias.
The Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Luso‑Venezuelan Carla da Silva was released after serving around five years in prison.
Luso-Venezuelan Carla da Silva, who had been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in Venezuela, was released today, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced tonight.
Businessman Elad Dror is accused of having bribed the former mayor of Gaia. Dror maintains his innocence.
José Manuel Castro says there are no grounds for a new conviction of Mário Machado and that the prison transfer has no “basis”. The lawyer also represents the neo-Nazi's mother and ex-wife.
Former Socialist prime minister says he is the victim of a violation of the right to a fair trial.
Sócrates wanted to add to his complaint a set of new information relating to developments in recent weeks in the trial of Operation Marquis.
The former prime minister and the other defendants were excused by the court from attending the trial and have been absent from recent hearings.
The case concerns an indictment by the Public Prosecutor's Office that “describes a series of violent practices” carried out by PSP officers on duty at police stations in Lisbon.
