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Hundreds of women convicted of being members of Daesh and serving long jail terms in a high-security prison in Iraq have reportedly been on hunger strike since April 24. At least 400 female prisoners, jailed for between 15 years and life…
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Three men - one Arab and two Asians - have committed a robbery pretending to be policemen. According to police records, the victim filed a report stating that he had been robbed while traveling with his colleague. The two had been…
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A Democratic Republic of Congo military court sentenced six men to life in prison over the death of the Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and driver, a lawyer said on Friday. Envoy Luca Attanasio, Italian bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and…
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Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces foiled an attempt to smuggle narcotics concealed in sunflower seeds into a prison in the north of the country. A 25-year-old Lebanese man who tried to deliver three bags of the seeds to an inmate at…
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French citizen Benjamin Briere is still in an Iranian jail despite his recent acquittal by an appeals court, his lawyer said Thursday. Briere was detained in May 2020, and later sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage. He is…
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A white supremacist who killed a woman when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville has been fined for allegedly threatening a correctional officer and brandishing what an…
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The Israeli military said Tuesday it has sentenced a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group to 22 months in prison after his arrest helped spark three days of heavy fighting in Gaza last year. Bassam Al-Saadi’s sentence was handed…
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A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with pain and rage caused by his racist attack. Anger briefly…
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Prisoners mutinied in a northwestern Syria prison Monday following a deadly earthquake, with at least 20 escaping the jail holding mostly Daesh group members, a source at the facility told AFP. The military police prison in the town of…
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The Spanish newspaper "El Pais" reported, on Friday, that a public prosecutor demanded that the Colombian star Shakira be sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of more than 23 million euros ($23.51 million), in a tax fraud case.…
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