Corruption is Everywhere > Evo Morales in contempt of court of child trafficking; Sara Duterte in trouble again in the Philippines; Poland's ex-justice minister flees to the US

 

Bolivian court: Arrest Evo Morales for skipping human trafficking trial

By Macarena Hermosilla

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales attends a public event in Chimore, Bolivia, in Feburary. Morales reappeared at the event in his political stronghold in the center of the country a little more than a month of not being seen publicly and amid differing reports about his health and whereabouts. File Photo by A/Jorge Abrego/EPA

May 11 (UPI) -- A criminal court in the Bolivian city of Tarija declared former President Evo Morales in contempt after he failed to appear for trial on charges related to the alleged trafficking of a minor.

The hearing, scheduled for Monday, was expected to begin the final stage of a case investigating Morales' alleged relationship with a 15-year-old girl in 2015, from which a child was allegedly born.

The contempt ruling triggered measures intended to ensure the appearance of the former leader of the ruling Movement for Socialism, or MAS.

Authorities issued an arrest warrant authorizing security forces to detain Morales anywhere in the country and prevent him from leaving Bolivia. The court also ordered freezing his bank accounts and precautionary registration of his assets.

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Prosecutors said they gathered more than 170 pieces of evidence in the case, which were expected to be presented during the trial.

After Morales and his legal team failed to appear in court, the judge applied Bolivian law that prohibits criminal trials in absentia.

"Because the accused failed to appear and did not legally justify his absence, this court issues a contempt ruling," the judge said, according to Bolivian newspaper El Deber.

The trial will remain suspended until Morales is arrested or voluntarily appears before the court.

Morales' defense team argued the case already had been addressed and resolved in 2020, adding the former president should not face prosecution again. His lawyers also claimed "there is no victim" and describe the charges as politically motivated, according to Chilean news outlet Emol.

Attorney Nelson Cox, a member of Morales' legal team, said insufficient security guarantees existed to transport the former president from the Chapare region of Cochabamba. He also described the case as a "political fabrication" intended to block Morales from running for office again, according to Bolivian broadcaster Unitel.

Prosecutors and lawyers representing the alleged victim criticized interruption of the trial.

"It is a mockery of the victims and the judicial system. The evidence is overwhelming and the accused must answer for his actions before the law," the regional prosecutor's office said.

Since October 2024, Morales has remained in the Chapare region, his main political stronghold, where he is protected by thousands of supporters and self-defense groups.

At that time, police were unable to execute an earlier arrest order after Morales supporters blocked roads for 24 days to prevent officers from entering the area where he remains sheltered.

The government of President Rodrigo Paz announced Tuesday it would seek information from U.S. judicial authorities to investigate Morales' alleged links to drug trafficking networks. Bolivian authorities are seeking to participate as a "victim" in ongoing U.S. legal proceedings to gain access to evidence.

One of the most significant cases involves former anti-drug chief Maximiliano Dávila, who was extradited to the United States in December 2024 and sentenced in March to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to import cocaine.

Morales has argued that Dávila's extradition is part of an effort to pressure him into testifying against the former president in exchange for legal benefits.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte impeached for second time

By Joe Fisher    

The Philippine Congress voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte Monday for the second time for allegedly misusing public funds. File Photo by Rolex Dela Pena/EPA-EFE

May 11 (UPI) -- The Philippine Congress voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte Monday for the second time for allegedly misusing public funds.

The vote in the House of Representatives to impeach Duterte was lopsided, with 257 of 290 lawmakers voting in favor. Duterte's impeachment will now face a Senate trial. If Duterte is convicted, she will be immediately removed and barred from holding public office, ending her hopes of a presidential run.

If Duterte is not convicted, she would be protected from being impeached again for two years.

Duterte is a leading candidate for the 2028 election to be the next president of the Philippines.

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The Senate trial could begin as early as Wednesday.

The House voted in favor of impeaching Duterte last year but the procedure never advanced to the Senate because the Supreme Court blocked the impeachment.

Duterte refused to participate in committee hearings over the investigation into the allegations against her. Her attorneys said Monday after the House vote that "the burden now rests on the accusers to substantiate their claims."

The Senate is made up of 24 senators.

The allegations against Duterte center on her gaining wealth after becoming mayor of Davao in 2019, as well as her use of funds as vice president.

"Our vote today is not a declaration of guilt, it is a declaration that when serious allegations are raised against one of the highest officials of the land, Congress cannot look away," said Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr.

The misuse of public funds is not the only controversy to follow Duterte. Last year, she claimed to have arranged for former running mate President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to be killed if she were killed. This preceded the House's 2025 impeachment vote.

Marcos is not eligible to run for reelection in 2028 as he will meet his term limit.

Poland's wanted ex-justice minister flees Hungary for U.S.

By Darryl Coote    

Zbigniew Ziobro, seen here at a Law and Justice political party convention in October, said Sunday that he had fled Hungary for the United States. File Photo by Art Service Poland Out/EPA

May 11 (UPI) -- Poland's former justice minister, wanted on misappropriation-related charges, has fled Hungary for the United States, confirming in an interview with Polish media that he was in the country.

Zbigniew Ziobro's exact location in the United States was unknown, but TVN24 reported that the wanted former justice minister was photographed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

He said he was in the United States in a Sunday interview with Poland's right-wing TV Republika broadcaster, clips of which Ziobro published to his social media accounts.

"I am not afraid of the court; an American court is certainly an independent court," the caption to the clip posted to Facebook read. "If they want to bring an extradition case, go right ahead."

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Ziobro is wanted in Poland, where prosecutors have moved to charge him with 26 offenses alleging that he failed to perform his duties and exceeded his authority as minister of justice and prosecutor general, positions he held from November 2015 until November 2023, according to a statement from the National Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors allege that he founded and led an organized criminal group and misappropriated or attempted to misappropriate money from the Justice Fund, a state fund intended to help crime victims.

Prosecutors moved in late October to strip Ziobro of his immunity. On Nov. 7, Poland's parliament agreed to lift that immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to seek his detention and formally charge him.

But Ziobro was already in Hungary. A day before prosecutors moved to charge him, Ziobro said he had been "invited" to Budapest to show a film critical of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

In January, Ziobro announced online that he had accepted asylum granted to him by Hungary, claiming he's been a target of "Tusk's personal vendetta" and a victim of political persecution.

In April, opposition leader Peter Magyar and his pro-Europe center-right Tisza party defeated Hungary's longtime authoritarian-leaning prime minister, Viktor Orban.

Magyar vowed during his campaign that, if elected prime minister, he would extradite Ziobro, and he was sworn in on Saturday.

Following the news that Ziobro was no longer in Hungary, Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Waldemar Zurek said his office would contact both the United States and Hungary "with questions" concerning the legality of Ziobro's departure from Hungary and entry into the United States, stating they had invalidated his travel documents, including his diplomatic passport.

"We count on your cooperation," Zurek said in a statement.

Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that Ziobro received a visa that was personally approved by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is a close ally of Orban.

UPI has contacted the U.S. Embassy in Budapest for comment and confirmation.

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Islam in Europe > Mohamud becomes Lord Mayor of Bristol > What Will Britain Be Like in 2063?; 41% Muslim youth say Islam stands above laws of Austria; Court goes easy on vicious stabber; 550,000 migrants waiting in Libya

 

UK: Muslim migrant Green Party councillor becomes ‘the first person from Somalia’ to be Lord Mayor of Bristol

May 13, 2026 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer4 Comments

But he won’t be the last. Shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain is in the process of being conquered and colonized, and Muslims who were born somewhere else will increasingly assume leadership roles at every level of society. Before too long, it may be illegal for native non-Muslims to hold public office, or extremely rare for them to do so. Think that’s hysterical and will never happen? Ask the Copts, who are the native people of Egypt, about how hysterical it is that the indigenous people of a land could become a despised minority in their own homeland.

Yassin Mohamud, Bristol Green Party, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication

Yassin Mohamud to become next lord mayor

by Molly Pipe, Bristol247, April 7, 2026

Bristol’s next lord mayor has been announced as Green councillor Yassin Mohamud, who will be the first person from Somalia to hold the role.

Mohamud, who moved to England over 20 years ago, has represented Lawrence Hill since 2021.

He will be sworn in in May, replacing Conservative councillor Henry Michallat who will become deputy lord mayor.

A mainly ceremonial role, the lord mayor chairs full council meetings and carries out numerous public engagements….

“It’s a deep honour to be stepping into the role,” Mohamud said, calling it “both a personal journey and a responsibility to the communities that have shaped me.

“Like many people in our city, my understanding of politics did not begin in a formal setting; it came from lived experience.

“Over time, I became increasingly aware that some neighbourhoods, like Lawrence Hill, were facing persistent inequalities yet often felt overlooked. I decided to step forward [and] be part of shaping solutions.”…

What Will Britain Be Like in 2063?

May 13, 2026 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald11 Comments

Now that the anti-Muslim immigrant Reform Party has in the election just held on May 7 won hundreds of local councilor races, it could be that the successor to Labour P.M. Keir Starmer, whose party was clobbered, will be someone who has been warning about the transformational effect on British society of so many Muslim migrants. If such a person does become prime minister, one can expect a great decrease in the number, or possibly an end, to any migrants from Muslim countries, and deportation, and possible denaturalization, of Muslim migrants already in the U.K. who are convicted of crimes or who refuse to work at government-mandated jobs in exchange for receiving welfare benefits. But if that does not happen, and the Muslim percentage of the population in Britain continues inexorably to rise, both because of the large number of Muslims continuing to arrive each year, and because Muslim fertility rates in the U.K. are far higher than the rates for the indigenous non-Muslims, that now fall far below the replacement level of 2.1, the country will be transformed.

Al Muhajiroun, Europe October 2009 by Gareth Davies, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

What will the U.K. be like in 2063 if Muslim migration continues at current levels of several hundred thousand a year? A look at this conceivable transformation can be found here: 

The Demographic Eclipse Of Great Britain

by Lars Møller, American Thinker, May 8, 2026:

…The pessimism is warranted precisely because the process is self-reinforcing. Lower native fertility, unchecked migration, and higher immigrant birth rates create a demographic momentum that no modest policy tweak can arrest. Elites, intoxicated by virtue-signaling and terrified of “far-right” labels, have presided over this transformation without democratic consent. The result is not hybrid vigor but cultural suicide: the anchor of the West—its commitment to reason, rights, and restraint—snapped in favor of a totalizing ideology that views pluralism as weakness and dissent as heresy.

By 2063, Britain will not be recognizably British. Its cathedrals may stand, but the values that built them will be relics. The tolerant society that once exported liberty will import the very intolerance that it once overcame. Demographic destiny, absent radical reversal, ensures that the eclipse is total. The light that illuminated the West will flicker out in the land of its birth, leaving a darker, more divided realm where ideological totalitarianism reigns and the discriminated—women, homosexuals, religious minorities—pay the price of elite folly. History is unlikely to record this as enrichment; it is a civilian conquest terminating a civilization.

But there is still time to avoid this bleak scenario. The U.K. requires leaders who understand the menace of Islam, and are willing to act now to limit or halt Muslim migration, and to deport back to their countries of origin those migrants, overwhelmingly Muslims, who are convicted of crimes or who refuse to accept jobs offered by the government in order to receive welfare benefits. The recent surge in support for groups that are openly opposed to continued Muslim migration testifies to a change in the political climate. Now there needs to be widespread public discussion about the effect of increasing Muslim numbers on the wellbeing of the indigenous non-Muslims in the U.K. That requires a willingness to face down those who preposterously try to smear those sounding the tocsin about Islamic demographic conquest from within by calling them “racists” and “Islamophobes.” Islam is not a race, we need to keep repeating, and hostility to Islam is not irrational.

You're so optimistic, Hugh. I can't see how the cat can possibly be stuffed back into the bag at this point. As long as the Green Party and Labour are willing to sell out Britain for power, there can be no turning around.

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Austria: 41% Muslim youth say Islam stands above laws of Austria; nearly half would ‘fight,’ ‘die’ to defend Islam

May 13, 2026 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams8 Comments

A rapidly growing number of young Muslims are being more forthright than we have previously seen in the modern West, but they are merely stating what their religion firmly teaches.

Islam divides the world in two — dar al harb (the House of War) and dar al Islam (the House of Islam). Guess which one Austria belongs to? In Islam, the House of War must be subjugated and become the House of Islam. It’s done by jihad. There are many kinds of jihad, such as stealth jihad (deceit and da’wah), jihad by immigration, and violent jihad. And then there’s the deceitful “globalize the intifada” and “resistance” movements, which are highly propagandist jihadist movements to gain sympathies for Muslims and smear Israel and Jews everywhere.

Austria will become increasingly antisemitic, and respect for the rule of law there will tank. With 41% of young Muslims favoring Islamic law, this transformation has already started, and is going strong.

Photo: Mats.friede, Creative Commons

In Vienna, more than 40% of Muslim youth consider Islamic rules more important than western law

by Chris Gattringer, Brussels Signal, May 12, 2026:

A new study from Austria has revealed a shocking degree of religious indoctrination and anti-western sentiment among young Muslims in Vienna.

According to the study titled Between recognition and devaluation: The attitudes of young immigrants in Vienna – published on May 11 – 41 per cent of Muslim youth say that the rules of their religion stand above the laws of Austria.

By comparison, among Christian immigrants, only 21 per cent said the same.

For the study, 1,200 Muslims in Vienna aged between 14 and 21 were questioned.

More than half of them – 53 per cent – said that every Muslim woman should wear a headscarf in public. Almost two thirds or 64 per cent said that “Islamic rules apply to all aspects of daily life and must be strictly observed”.

Some 39 per cent said that all people should obey the rules of Islam.

And 43 per cent of respondents said the west was to blame for the problems of the Islamic World.

Especially worrying for many is the degree to which young Muslims in Austria are apparently ready to pick up arms for their beliefs: Some 46 per cent of respondents said they were “ready to fight and die for the defence of their religion”…

And that, of course, is what it will come to unless Europeans pick up their prayer mats and head like sheep to the nearest mosque. 

Germany: Attempted murder charge dropped against Muslim because he stopped stabbing his victim instead of continuing

May 12, 2026 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer13 Comments

Because everyone knows how well the poor dears respond to kindness. They always respond in kind, rather than seeing it as weakness and becoming more aggressive. Don’t they?

Hauptmarkt of Zwickau by André Karwath aka Aka, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5

Germany: Judge drops attempted murder charge despite Moroccan migrant stabbing his victim in the chest and stomach multiple times during pre-arranged fist fight

Remix News, May 11, 2026:

A 22-year-old Moroccan migrant, Aboubaker B., has been convicted of grievous bodily harm after stabbing a Tunisian migrant in his stomach and chest multiple times during a pre-arranged fist fight in Zwickau. However, Aboubaker B. faced a far lower sentence than expected after the judge determined that since the man stopped stabbing his victim at some point, the act did not amount to attempted murder.

Therefore, there can be no such thing as attempted murder by stabbing; he's either dead or you didn't really intend to kill him with your knife. 

The incident began as a physical fight on Oct. 26, 2025, at Schuhmannplatz when Aboubaker B. agreed with the Tunisian to meet for a fist fight. However, the incident ended in a life-threatening stabbing, with Aboubaker B. stabbing his victim multiple times once he fell on the ground, according to Tag24 outlet.

The incident escalated from a fistfight into a brutal attack when Aboubaker B. drew a knife on his 25-year-old opponent after the man had fallen. According to the indictment, he stabbed the victim “multiple times into the chest and abdominal cavity.” The court noted that “the injured party was seriously injured as a result,” requiring immediate surgery and leaving the victim with lasting physical consequences.

Predictably, the prosecutors charged Aboubaker B. with attempted murder due to the severity of the crime. However, despite the serious injuries the judge dropped the attempted murder charge, stating that “according to the testimony of the witnesses examined, the defendant voluntarily stopped stabbing him further, even though he could have easily done so – up to and including killing him.”

The judge argued that because the defendant chose to cease the attack of his own accord, he became eligible for a conviction on the lesser charge of grievous bodily harm.

With the lesser charge in place, the prosecution pushed for a sentence of three years and six months, and the defense argued for two years and six months. Judge Jörg Burmeister ultimately settled on a three-year prison term.

Several factors influenced the judge’s final sentencing. The defendant offered a full apology to the victim and admitted to the crime in court, allegedly showing significant remorse….

 

Over 500,000 waiting to cross into Europe from Libya – Greek migration minister

The North African nation poses the biggest problem for the bloc in terms of arrivals, Thanos Plevris has said

Published 11 May, 2026 16:40 | Updated 12 May, 2026 05:52

FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / IMAGO / Vincenzo Circosta

The EU could be on the verge of a new migrant crisis, with more than half a million people waiting in Libya alone to cross into Europe, Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris has said.

The bloc was first inundated by asylum seekers from the Middle East and Northern Africa during the 2015 refugee crisis, when a million migrants entered Europe, straining welfare systems and prompting tens of millions of European voters to turn to far-right political parties.

Greece remains one of the bloc’s main entry points, registering 48,771 arrivals in 2025, according to UNHCR data. According to the UN refugee agency, 7,589 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in the Mediterranean country this year as of May 3, including 5,615 by sea.

Athens has introduced a number of strict measures to stem the flow over the past years, including detention for those denied asylum. Commenting on the situation on Sunday, Plevris said Greece is “the first country to criminalize illegal residence” and will not allow those denied protection to just roam free.

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“Those who are not entitled to asylum will be detained,” the minister told a local broadcaster, adding that Athens will “operate within the law but will go to its limits to protect the borders.” 

He also described the situation in Libya as the biggest problem faced by his country and the EU. According to Plevris, around 550,000 people have gathered there and are now seeking to enter Europe.

In February, Plevris announced that it was working with Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Denmark to create “return hubs” for rejected asylum seekers outside of the EU’s borders, with Africa being the preferred destination.

Libya became a key transit point for human trafficking and migration to Europe via the Mediterranean following a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that led to the overthrow and assassination of longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi. The EU has struggled to manage the migration crisis since 2015, with Greece, Italy, and Spain receiving the highest number of arrivals across the Mediterranean.