An Iranian court has given two death sentences to a Tajik man convicted of carrying out a gun attack that killed two people at a major Shiite shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, the judiciary website reported Thursday. The website Mizan
Brazil’s Supreme Court handed a 17-year prison sentence Thursday to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office. Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51,
A court in Bangladesh sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son and heir apparent on Wednesday to nine years in prison after finding the opposition leader guilty in a corruption case filed by the government in 2007. Judge Mohammed Asaduzzaman of Dhaka
An Egyptian court sentenced a rights activist on Tuesday to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019 in a case that renewed global attention to Egypt’s intolerance of government critics. The case of Patrick George Zaki has
Iran has sentenced a popular rapper to six years and three months in prison over his participation in protests that rocked the country last year, his supporters said Monday. A social media account run by supporters of Toomaj Salehi announced the sentence,
Three soldiers were sentenced to prison for abusing a Palestinian and obstructing an investigation by hiding details of the incident from their commanders. Two soldiers were convicted of abuse, the third was additionally convicted of endangering the man’s life and health and
Alun Titford and Sarah Lloyd-Jones, who were convicted of the gross negligence manslaughter of their morbidly obese daughter Kaylea Titford, have had their jail sentences increased at the Court of Appeal to 10 years and eight years respectively. Kaylea, 16, was found in conditions described as
An extremist who killed eight people by driving a truck along a bike path in Manhattan, NY, has been given 10 life sentences. Sayfullo Saipov, who also injured 18 other people, was told he will also be sentenced to another 260 years
China sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison on Monday on spying charges, a case that could further deteriorate already damaged ties between Beijing and Washington, D.C. John Shing-Wan Leung, who also holds permanent residency in Hong Kong, was detained
A German court has convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, ordering him to be permanently held in a psychiatric hospital. The Berlin regional