Vietnam court jails journalist for 30 months over Facebook posts
A leading independent journalist and book author from Vietnam has been sentenced to 30 months in jail…
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South Korea striker gets suspended jail term for filming secret sex videos
South Korean football player Hwang Ui-jo has been handed a suspended one-year jail term for illegally…
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Man jailed for 30 years for Charlie Hebdo meat cleaver attack
A man has been jailed for 30 years for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside the…
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Pakistan: Ex-PM Khan, wife jailed in corruption case
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Friday sentenced to 14 years in prison, and…
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Pakistan jails 25 Imran Khan supporters over attacks on military sites
Pakistan has jailed 25 civilians over attacks on military facilities that followed the arrest of former…
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Court jails preacher for damaging vehicles of MPs in Parliament
The Circuit Court 9 in Accra has sentenced 33-year-old Christopher Kofi Okyere Sorkpa to five years…
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Bishop Salifu Amoako’s son jailed six months; parents fined GHc12k for failing son
The 16-year-old son of Bishop Salifu Amoako has been convicted and sentenced to serve a six-month punishment…
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Mali: Former Chief Police sentenced to 10 years for war crimes
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud,…
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Ugandan opposition politician kidnapped and jailed – wife reveals
The wife of prominent Ugandan opposition figure, Kizza Besigye, said on Wednesday he was kidnapped during…
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Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal
One of Russia’s youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence.…
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