Jayde Panayiotou’s husband Christopher, accused of master-minding the beloved teacher’s murder, spent Thursday in court complaining about the conditions in holding cells. During his bail application in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court, his lawyer Terry Price said the conditions in the holding cells at St Alban’s prison were ”despicable” and[…]
Indian movie star Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in jail for killing a homeless man and injuring four others in a 2002 hit-and-run case. Mumbai’s High Court found Khan guilty of culpable homicide and other charges on Wednesday for driving his Land Cruiser into a group of[…]
Israeli authorities on Friday released 14-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl Malak al-Khatib after a two month prison sentence. Al-Khatib, from the town of Beitin near Ramallah, was arrested last December and sentenced to two months in jail on the charge of stone-throwing and possession of a knife. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said[…]
Egypt has sentenced Mohamed Badie, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and 14 others to 25 years in jail for murder and inciting violence, Reuters news agency has reported. Badie was one of thousands of Brotherhood figures and supporters arrested in a deadly crackdown following the army’s toppling in July[…]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decreed an amnesty last month but for tens of thousands of prisoners, among them high-profile dissidents, the promise of freedom is a fraud. Yara Bader, 29, has been desperately waiting for word on her husband Mazen Darwish, a journalist and activist detained since February 2012. Her[…]
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