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The sentencing enforcement tribunal of Brussels ordered a new psychiatric assessment of notorious convicted paedophile Marc Dutroux on Monday, following a request from his lawyers, reports RTBF.
Some 3,000 people took part in a silent wake yesterday evening in Antwerp to commemorate Julie Van Espen, who was murdered last weekend riding her bike in the city. She was 23 years old.
This weekend, Jamioulx and Hasselt prisons were the first to add telephones inside their cells. The inmates have the option to call from these phones at a rate of €0.11 a minute.
Lawyers, clerks and magistrates walked out of work on Wednesday morning and stood together on outside courthouses around the country. They were protesting against a lack of government funding.
Prison personnel across Belgium went on strike this morning in protest at the government’s plans to implement regulations that would require a minimum of service during strikes.
A Brussels court has acquitted 18 suspects over a €37 million diamond heist at Brussels Airport in 2013.
Racial profiling is alive and well in Belgium, according to a new report released by Amnesty International this week, the conclusion of a months-long study into the opinions and practices of polic
About 600 lawyers and magistrates gathered outside Brussels' central court house on Tuesday to form the message "Justice help!" in giant letters - in a protest about underfunding of the Belgian ju
Federal justice minister Jan Jambon has said that he would like to see stricter rules concerning tattoos on police officers. “Agents have to be neutral,” he told De Standaard.
