An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest used her profile to raise money for charity she then spent it on herself, a judge said as she was jailed for two and a half years. Xahra Saleem, now aged 23, gained a high public profile as a member of the BLM march in Bristol in … Read more
Four former student leaders from the University of Hong Kong have been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting people to wound others through their praise of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself in 2021 ByKANIS LEUNG Associated Press October 30, 2023, 4:32 AM HONG KONG — Four former student … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota county agreed to pay a $12.2 million settlement to a man who was jailed on suspicion of drunken driving but ended up losing both his hands and suffering a heart attack, a stroke and skin lesions all over his body, allegedly due to the inaction of officials in the county … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing more than four months ago after being arrested by police returned home Monday after being freed, police and his colleagues said. It is widely believed that Imran Riaz Khan, known for publicly supporting jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was being held by security agencies. … Read more
An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and was placed in a tiny “punishment cell.” ByDASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press September 24, 2023, 10:34 AM TALLINN, Estonia — An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny … Read more
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s imprisoned former chief, Aung San Suu Kyi, is affected by signs of low blood strain together with dizziness and lack of urge for food, however has been denied therapy at certified amenities outdoors the jail system, a medical employee stated Thursday. Suu Kyi, 78, who was arrested in February 2021 when the … Read more
The best court docket within the Maldives has rejected a plea from the nation’s jailed former president that he be made eligible to contest subsequent month’s presidential election FILE – Abdullah Yameen speaks to the media outdoors his house in Male, Maldives, July 3, 2010. The best court docket within the Maldives on Sunday, Aug. … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment RIGA, Latvia — Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, who’s being tried on “extremism” costs in a case that would add a long time to his sentence, sat in a courtroom following the Wagner mercenary insurrection over the weekend. He stared, thunderstruck, as his attorneys confirmed him photographs of the disaster. … Read more
RIGA, Latvia — A Moscow court docket on Thursday rejected an enchantment by jailed American journalist Evan Gershkovich towards Russia’s continued detention of him within the high-security Lefortovo jail, that means he’ll stay imprisoned on spying fees that the USA authorities and his employer, the Wall Road Journal, say have been fabricated. Russian safety brokers … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A person who served a hit-and-run sentence in a California jail till his launch earlier this yr remained jailed Tuesday, awaiting expenses after a crash killed 5 younger ladies in Minneapolis when a dashing driver blew previous a state trooper, ran a crimson mild and slammed into their automobile. Derrick John Thompson, … Read more