Kazakhstan jails former minister for 24 years over wife’s torture, murder
Kazakhstan’s top court has sentenced a former economy minister to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife, following a widely watched trial…
Kazakhstan’s top court has sentenced a former economy minister to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife, following a widely watched trial…
Tran Qui Thanh was found guilty of scamming investors over loans issued in 2019 and 2020. Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon was jailed for eight years…
Two San Francisco County jails were locked down over the weekend because of increasing assaults of deputies and other staff by inmates at the facilities,…
Niculina Moica felt the weight of history as she pushed open the rusty iron gate to the former communist prison of Jilava, where she was…
Defendants jailed for terms between four and seven years after being found guilty of rioting after forcing their way into the chamber. A Hong Kong…
Prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin was convicted by a Moscow court on Thursday of inciting extremism and jailed for four years.Key points:Girkin has previously insulted…
Igor Girkin has accused President Vladimir Putin and the army top brass of not pursuing the Ukraine war effectively enough. A court in Russia has…
January 12, 2024January 16, 2024 A court in Vietnam on Friday sentenced former Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long to 18 years in prison after finding…
Hebron, occupied West Bank – Lama Khater sits quietly, ready to talk but seemingly exhausted. The mother of five’s face is pale and her lips…
When state regulators showed up to inspect Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles in September they found broken toilets, moldy towels, rodent droppings and…
Israeli authorities released 30 Palestinian prisoners on Friday, hours after Hamas freed additional captives under an agreement to extend their temporary truce in Gaza by…
NewsFeedPalestinian prisoners released under the Israel-Hamas temporary truce deal have told Al Jazeera they were physically abused by Israeli prison guards.Published On 28 Nov 202328…
In one video, a jailer kneels on an inmate’s neck. In another, two deputies slam a man’s head into a wall. In yet another, two…
NewsFeedMore Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank have led to the arrests of dozens of Palestinians and the number held in Israeli jails has…
In golf carts, vans and on motorbikes, Hamas fighters have taken dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers back to the Gaza Strip after their attack…
Rights groups condemn sentence against prominent campaigner on issues of climate change and environmental degradation. Vietnam has sentenced prominent environmental activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong…
Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan of the Odhikar group documented extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and police brutality. A court in Bangladesh has sentenced two…
In Sacramento, county inmates sometimes go weeks without feeling an outside breeze on their faces. In San Francisco, some haven’t seen sunlight in years. And…
More than 50 people are found guilty of corruption charges over repatriation flights during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Vietnamese court has handed prison sentences to…
Russia has outlawed Navalny’s organisation as part of a crackdown on dissent that’s worsened since the war in Ukraine. Russia has sentenced Vadim Ostanin, a…