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DEM Party expected to hold face-to-face meeting with Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in prison for 25 years. Turkiye will allow parliament’s pro-Kurdish party to visit the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on his island prison, setting up the first such visit in nearly a decade. The Justice Ministry approved a request […]
The tragic and harrowing case of 10-year-old Sara Sharif has shocked the UK as her father and stepmother have been sentenced to life in prison for her murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of orchestrating a prolonged campaign of abuse that ultimately led to Sara’s death. The case exposed devastating […]
Liz Cheney hits back after Trump says January 6 committee members should be jailed Good morning, US politics blog readers. In his first sit-down interview since winning the presidential election, Donald Trump made clear to NBC News on Sunday that he planned to upend an array of governing norms as soon as he gets into […]
(ANALYSIS) On Nov. 19, 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were sentenced to years in jail for “subversion” following a controversial National Security Law (NSL) trial. Among them were Benny Tai, a former law professor at the University of Hong Kong, identified in the judgment as a mastermind of the plans, and Joshua Wong, a student […]
A Free State rapist has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bultfontein Regional Court. Pule Richard Motseu, 24, from Phahong in Bultfontein near Welkom was found guilty of charges of rape and aggravated robbery. The court heard on May 28, 2023, the 22-year-old woman and her friend were walking to a tavern at about […]
A disgraced real-estate lawyer who this week admitted to pilfering millions in client money to support her and her family’s lavish lifestyle was handcuffed in a Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon and marched out by a constable to serve a 20-day sentence for contempt of court, as her husband and mother watched. Singa Bui “consistently ignored […]
Private attorney Will Earnhart, hired to represent the Department of Corrections, left, and plaintiff’s counsel Eric Fong argue a point before Anchorage Superior Court Judge Una Gandbhir during a trial stemming from a 2020 suicide attempt by an inmate at Wildwood Correctional Facility in Kenai, on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A […]
Four former Hong Kong lawmakers found guilty in a landmark national security trial, including Claudia Mo Man-ching, will be released in about six months’ time as they have already spent nearly four years in custody. Three judges ended the city’s largest and longest-running trial under the Beijing-decreed national security law on Tuesday by jailing 45 […]
More than three years and eight months since 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were charged with conspiring to commit subversion, their family members on Tuesday learned when they would next see their loved ones without a screen separating them. Tsang Kin-shing, aka “the Bull,” lines up outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on November […]
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s high court on Thursday sentenced a man to 23 years and 10 months in prison for being the mastermind of an alleged plot to attack police with explosives during the city’s pro-democracy and anti-China protests in 2019. The man, Ng Chi-hung, 28, had been charged with “prohibitions against bombing of […]