A Spanish court has agreed to release Dani Alves on bail if the former Barcelona defender pays £854,000 (€1million) and hands in two passports. Alves was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison in Barcelona last month after being found guilty of rape.
A Catholic activist in Belarus was handed a three-year prison sentence Friday on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities’ sweeping crackdown on the country’s civil society. Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, who taught the catechism
Ousmane Sonko, Senegal’s top opposition leader, was released from prison ahead of the March 24 election but has been barred from running. Sonko’s release energized supporters, with thousands celebrating in Dakar. The court decision barring Sonko from the election cannot be appealed,
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A British prison has partially shut down after authorities detected a radioactive gas leak on site. Authorities at HMP Dartmoor have closed more than 180 cells after they detected radon – an odourless, colourless gas responsible for thousands of cancer deaths per
Nearly 161 prison staff have been arrested since 2020 on suspicion of supplying drugs in jails, the Express can reveal. Forty seven arrests were made for supplying drugs in prisons in 2023, compared to 37 the previous year and 43 in 2021
A major incident was declared at HMP Bristol last night after several prisoners, believed to have drunk homemade alcohol, went on a destructive rampage, causing significant damage to one of the prison wings. The chaos started just after 8.10pm, following a day
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has offered the organisers of the viral Wonka experience the chance to make amends. The disastrous Glasgow event – which was scripted by AI and featured nightmarish performers and dismal scenery – has gone viral after guests
Alexei Navalny survived through difficult times in a brutal Siberian prison by cracking jokes and handwriting letters, according to a survivor. Natan Sharansky, 76, was a political dissident and Israeli former minister who endured almost nine years in Soviet prisons, including the
The heads of the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was “detained and killed” will be banned from the UK and see their assets frozen under new sanctions announced by Lord Cameron, the Foreign Office said. The new sanctions