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South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months imprisonment
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], June 30 (ANI): South Africa's top court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma was in contempt of court and handed him a sentence of 15 months imprisonment for defying court orders to appear before a corruption investigation spanning nine years of his ter
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Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for killing George Floyd
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer convicted for murdering George Floyd last year, has been sentenced to 22.5 years in prison.
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang given long prison sentences
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 25 (ANI): Chinese government figures show a steep rise in the number of people given lengthy prison sentences in Xinjiang from 2014, when Beijing's crackdown on the region's Muslim-majority Uyghurs ramped up.
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China continues efforts to arbitrarily detain, torture people under RSDL c
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): Almost eight years after Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the draconian system - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) - Beijing continues to step up its efforts to arbitrarily detain, coerce confessions from, torture, threaten and mi
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How five Hong Kong anti-govt protesters escaped persecution by Chinese aut
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], June 22 (ANI): Almost a year after five anti-government protesters fled Hong Kong in July 2020 to escape unfair prosecution and inevitable imprisonment for their roles in the 2019 demonstrations, they seem to have finally found freedom in the United States.
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Kotkhai rape, murder case: Lone accused sentenced to life imprisonment til
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 19 (ANI): A trial Court in Shimla on Friday sentenced the 28-year-old lone accused to life imprisonment in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old minor girl in the forest of Halaila, Kotkhai of Shimla district in 2017.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stand trial, faces life imprisonment
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 15 (ANI): Imprisoned Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will stand trial in the High Court, where the maximum sentence is life in prison, for allegedly breaching the national security law by colluding with the foreign forces.
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National Equality Party protests outside Pak high commission in London aga
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 11 (ANI): National Equality Party Jammu Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh (NEP JKGBL) on Thursday held a protest outside the Pakistani High Commission here against the imprisonment of political workers and human rights activists in Pakistani Occupied Jammu Kashmir and Gil
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SC adjourns hearing on Asaram Bapu's plea for treatment at Ayurvedic centr
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court has adjourned the plea of Asaram Bapu, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a rape case, seeking temporary suspension of sentence to pursue medical treatment at an Ayurvedic treatment centre in Uttarakhand to June 11.
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SC asks Rajasthan to respond on Asaram Bapu's plea for treatment at Ayurve
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Rajasthan government on a petition by Asaram Bapu, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a rape case, to be shifted to an Ayurvedic treatment centre to get better care for his "ill health" in Rajasthan or an
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HK security chief threatens Jimmy Lai's bankers with jail if they deal wit
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 28 (ANI): Hong Kong's security chief has warned bankers for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai that dealing with his frozen bank accounts will make them liable for imprisonment up to seven years.
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Pak parliamentary panel endorses jail for criticising armed forces; slamme
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): From Pakistani federal ministers to opposition leaders to the legal fraternity, people from across the divide have criticised the approval of a bill by the country's National Assembly's standing committee, which proposed up to two years imprisonment and
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