News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: Crimea →. In February 2014, Russian military forces invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 adopted on March 27, 2014, and entitled Territorial Integrity of Ukraine, states the Autonomous Republic of Crimea remains internationally recognized as within Ukraine’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Agencies and Nonprofits Can Apply for Grants to Fund Programs to Help Reduce Violent Crime in Roanoke, Danville, and Lynchburg.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience, which includes freedom of thought and religion, subject to the interests of defense, public safety, order, morality, and health, and to the protection of other persons’ rights and freedoms. The law prohibits religious discrimination and allows all...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Courtney Michaelis (37, Clearwater) and Nicholas Ham (21, Clearwater) with distributing fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury to an individual. Michaelis is also charged with conspiring to distribute...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of all religions. Religious organizations may register as legal entities classified as religious associations and thereby acquire tax-exempt status and other government benefits. In August Muslim leaders reported members of their community regularly encountered...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of religion and religious worship and prohibits the establishment of a state religion. On Jan. 21, citizens of the five provinces and three major cities of western Mindanao ratified the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), creating a new Muslim-led autonomous...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution and other laws and policies prohibit religious discrimination and protect religious freedom, including the freedom to practice any religion or belief through worship, teaching, or observance and to debate religious questions. The constitution provides for special qadi courts to adjudicate...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: PALISADES PARK, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing penalties against BB Frame LLC - operating as Frame Q and as Juan Quevedo (the owner and principal) - for exposing workers to multiple safety hazards at four Bergen County, New Jersey, worksites. OSHA conducted five investigations beginning in December 2019 of the Palisades Park, New Jersey, framing contractor and is proposing $1,997,125 in penalties.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution establishes Islam as the state religion but mandates equality for persons of all faiths. The government maintained its authority over all Islamic matters and institutions, including assets and personnel of all mosques. Non-Muslim groups register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Ivan Jacob Zecher (27, Jacksonville) with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm. If convicted, Zecher faces up to 10 years in federal prison on each count. At a hearing on June 10, 2020, U.S. Zecher was ordered detained pending trial.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the freedom of individuals to profess their religion or belief. It is a crime to engage in public speech inciting religious hatred. In August the government implemented a ban of face coverings in schools and some public spaces, but institutions ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: The coronavirus pandemic underscores the vital contribution pharmaceutical sciences make for the nation’s public health, economic prosperity and our way of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Key West, Fl. - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Matthew J. DeSarno, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Dallas Field Office, announced that Donald Howard Conkright, 63, a resident of the Florida Keys, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for laundering about $2,000,000 of a school district’s money.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the freedom of religion and for the right of individuals to choose their religion, express and disseminate their religious beliefs, and participate in religious observances and ceremonies. The constitution maintains the separation of government and religion, stipulating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was arrested today and charged in connection with advertising the sale of a firearm on Snapchat.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religion and provides for freedom of conscience, religion, belief, and thought. In October a standoff between an Anglican parish and Muslim communities in Balaka District over the wearing of hijabs by Muslim female students led to four government-funded...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of belief and the right to practice, profess, and promote any religion. Some newly converted Muslim inmates lodged a complaint with the government’s Office of the Ombudsman that they were not allowed to update their religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the right to choose, practice, or change one’s religion. It declares the Church of Norway is the country’s established church, and the government continued to provide it with exclusive benefits, including funds for salaries and benefits ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney John Parmley (619) 546-7957.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the right, individually or jointly with others, to adhere to any religion or to no religion, and to participate in religious customs and ceremonies. The constitution states religious associations shall be separate from the state and “shall not interfere in state affairs."...
