TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted a famous dissident rock band, designating the band and its three members as extremist and sentencing them to two years of correctional labor. It was the latest in a yearslong crackdown on dissent
Russian forces have demonstrated their ability to sustain operations despite enduring significant casualties over the past two years of intense warfare with Ukraine. As the battle rages on, a winter marked by relentless fighting and incremental Russian advancements has witnessed the momentum
A Dutch court has convicted 17 suspects, with three receiving life sentences, including Ridouan Taghi, the gang’s leader. Taghi, along with other suspects, did not attend the trial’s final day due to heavy security measures. Taghi was convicted of five murders and
A former high-ranking member of a pro-Syrian government militia, identified as Mustafa A., has been convicted by a Dutch court. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegal detention and complicity in torture related to the 2013 arrest and inhumane
A Turkish court convicted Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the son of Somalia’s president, in connection with the death of a motorcyclist. Mohamud, who had left Turkey after an arrest warrant was issued, returned last week to testify about the crash. The court
A court in Cambodia has convicted four land rights activists who allegedly plotted to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions. The activists were charged with plotting against the state and incitement to commit a felony for teaching about
Italy convicts Pakistani woman's relatives of killing her for refusing arranged marriage with cousin
A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022
A French court convicted six teenagers Friday in connection with a teacher’s beheading at the hands of an Islamic extremist. The victim, Samuel Paty, was identified by the students and later targeted by the attacker, a Chechen radical. The attack was apparently
Once elite Russian military squads are now filled with convicts and given low-priority support, according to the British MoD. The Ministry of Defence has released an intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine, focusing on Russia’s “elite” squads. First fielded in 2022,
A Russian man was found guilty by a German court on Thursday for his involvement in a conspiracy to murder an exiled Chechen dissident. The attack was allegedly orchestrated at the behest of a cousin of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Moscow-backed leader of