Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Asif Hassan | Afp | Getty Images Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan was hit with a fresh 14-year jail sentence on Wednesday after a state court found him guilty of graft, just one day after being handed a 10-year term on a conviction of leaking state secrets. … Read more
BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday convicted a prominent political activist of defaming the country’s monarchy and sentenced her to a two-year suspended jail term under a controversial law that criminalizes any perceived criticism of the royal institution. Patsaravalee Tanakitvibulpon, better known by her nickname “Mind,” had pleaded not guilty to an offense under … Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for inciting violence. Job Sikhala, an outspoken official with the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party and a former member of parliament, was … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets. The verdict drew swift criticism from Khan’s followers. It was also another blow to Khan, a former cricket star turned Islamist politician … Read more
A paedophile butcher who abducted and abused a child for 27 hours may have his “excessive” sentence reduced amid claims it put “too much weight” on his transgender identity, a court has heard. Andrew Miller, 53, who also uses the name Amy George, was dressed as a woman when he offered the young girl a … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been sentenced to an additional 15 months in prison for “spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime,” her family said in a statement shared on social media. She had been a vocal supporter of the … Read more
A Russian poet was given a 7-year prison sentence Thursday for reciting verses against Russia’s war in Ukraine, a tough punishment that comes during a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court convicted Artyom Kamardin on charges of making calls undermining national security and inciting hatred, which related to him reading his anti-war … Read more
NEW DELHI — Qatar’s Court of Appeal reduced Thursday the death sentence handed in October to eight retired Indian navy officers on spy charges, the Indian foreign ministry said. Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in a statement the detailed verdict has not been received yet. “We are in close touch with the legal team as … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — The apology letters that Donald Trump-allied lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were required to write as a condition of their plea deals in the Georgia election interference case are just one sentence long. The letters, obtained Thursday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, were hand-written and terse. Neither … Read more
Attorneys for Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz say he has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and self-enrichment ByAHMED MOHAMED Associated Press and SAM METZ Associated Press December 5, 2023, 11:30 AM FILE – In this Jan. 20, 2019, file photo, Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, center, attends … Read more