Sources: CNN
The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. 2024-09-2
Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards is charged with making child pornography. 2024-07-26
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte is sentenced to 40 years in prison for charges of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI and possession of child pornography. 2024-02-1
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolves the lower house of the Japanese Parliament ahead of the election on October 31. 2021-10-14
22-year-old Metropolitan Police Constable Ben Hannam admits to possession of an indecent image of a child, and a judge accordingly lifts reporting restrictions designed to allow a fair trial, revealing that Hannam became the first serving UK officer to be convicted of a terror offence after being found guilty at the Old Bailey of National Action membership. 2021-04-2
Japanese National Diet member Tsukasa Akimoto of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arrested for allegedly receiving up to ¥3 million in bribes from a Chinese company interested in setting up a casino in the country. 2019-12-25
Thousands protest outside the Japanese parliament in Tokyo against the relocation of a U.S. military base on Okinawa Island. Residents cite noise, pollution, and crime as reasons for not wanting a new base built. 2016-02-21
Google announces a new system aimed at removing child pornography from the internet. 2013-06-16
Survivors of child sexual abuse carried out by priests react with fury after Pope Benedict XVI's claims that pedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s and that society considers child pornography "normal". 2010-12-21
An investigation reveals that several dozen staff and contractors of the United States Department of Defense, some with high-level security clearances, allegedly downloaded child pornography; an undisclosed number did so on government-owned computers. 2010-07-24