The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
On November 20, 2025, Alice Leal Guo, the first-ever female mayor of Bamban — a Philippine city a little over 100 miles north of Manila — was sentenced to life in prison after a Philippine court convicted her of human trafficking stemming from her involvement with online scam centers.
On November 25, 2025, the European Parliament adopted its legislative resolution on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) whereby it approved the Council position at first reading.
On October 31, 2025, the Guyana Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Special Branch of the Guyana Police Force arrested prominent Guyanese businessmen Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed, on extradition warrants from the United States (U.S.).
On November 17, the exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was handed a death sentence after being convicted of crimes against humanity. In a trial conducted in absentia, a panel of three judges reviewed the case at the International Crimes Tribunal (‘ICT’ or ‘the Court’), the national domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh.
In November 2025, Spanish authorities arrested Wilmer Chavarria in Malaga, Spain, in coordination with Ecuadorian law enforcement.
On November 12, 2025, Austrian prosecutors indicted two former Syrian officials with serious crimes. The charges concern their roles in suppressing the Arab Spring uprising from 2011 to 2013 against Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa.
On October 8, the High Court of Australia issued a ruling entitled CD v. Commonwealth of Australia that validated legislation rapidly adopted by the Parliament to remove evidentiary obstacles to the prosecution of drug dealers and other alleged criminals who had been caught in a massive international “sting” using the so-called “AN0M” technology, known in Australia as Operation Ironside.
On November 2, the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced during talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo that the Dutch government would return a Pharaoh-era sculpture to Egypt, determined to have been illegally looted.
On November 10, 2025, Thailand’s Appeals Court ordered the extradition of She Zhijiang, a Chinese-Cambodian businessman accused of running one of Asia’s largest illegal online gambling and cybercrime networks. The decision affirms an earlier ruling by the nation’s Criminal Court and requires Zhijiang’s deportation to China within ninety days.
In a multi-national joint operation, Spanish authorities dismantled one of the “branches” of Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación) (CJNG) operating in their territory.
