Sources: CNN
Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards is charged with making child pornography. 2024-07-26
Spanish police arrest 121 people on charges related to child pornography, seizing nearly 500 terabytes of material. 2023-11-11
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolves the lower house of the Japanese Parliament ahead of the election on October 31. 2021-10-14
Around 337 people in a dozen countries are arrested for participating in a child pornography network that hosted up to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse. Officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea called it one of the largest child pornography operations to date. 2019-10-16
The Japanese Diet passes an anti-terrorism law that has been accused by critics as a threat to freedom. 2017-06-15
The National Diet of Japan passes legislation allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The abdication is to take place within three years. 2017-06-9
The National Diet of Japan votes to lower the voting age from 20 to 18. 2015-06-17
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces he will dissolve the House of Representatives of the Diet on Friday after the ruling DPJ government and opposition LDP come to an agreement regarding a reduction of seats in the House. A general election is scheduled for December 16. 2012-11-14
The New York Court of Appeals, in The People v. James Kent, rules that merely viewing child pornography (or having a cache of it, as on a cell phone), despite its offensiveness, is not in itself illegal in the state, so long as one is not aware of the cache or did not download the images ono a drive in order to view them; state legislators have stated they will work to close those loopholes through formulation of legislation. Distribution, production, and purposeful possession would still be illegal.2012-05-8
Approximately 107 people are charged with possessing offensive child pornography in Austria. 2010-12-19