PAKISTAN: The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan today appealed his convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defence lawyer said.

Mr Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and violation of marriage law. 

SLOVAKIA: Slovakia’s president said today that she will challenge at the Constitutional Court an amendment to the country’s penal code that eliminates the office of the special prosecutor dealing with major crime and corruption.