Law & Society

The probe was set after Poland's Law and Justice nationalist party changed laws to implement vast control of the judiciary and state media.

China has formally arrested the most prominent rights lawyer, Wang Yu, and five other human rights lawyers, on state subversion charge, after six months of secret detention. The serious charge could attract a life sentence.

The internal document leaks suggested that Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) covered up the Russian athletes doping scandal in 2009, six years before it banned the country from international competition. The IAAF denied the covering up.