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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 1 year in jail
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 16 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced by a Hong Kong court to one year in prison on Friday over illegal assembly in August 2019, reported Xinhua.
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198 inmates, 86 jail staff test positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra priso
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 15 (ANI): As many as 198 inmates and 86 members of jail staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra prisons, the State Prison Department said on Thursday.
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Hong Kong court extends Joshua Wong's jail time for 2019 pro-democracy pro
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 14 (ANI): Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's democracy activists and among 47 people charged under the draconian national security law, was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday for unauthorized assembly and violating an anti-mask law.
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Assange supporters in UK hold protest to mark arrest anniversary
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], April 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Julian Assange supporters held protests in London on Sunday to mark two years since the WikiLeaks founder was dragged out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London and imprisoned in the United Kingdom, where he is waiting in jail for the outcome of an extraditi
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30 booked under rape, POCSO, murder in Haryana, convicted in Q1 of 2021
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], April 11 (ANI): As many as 30 people booked under rape, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), murder, and other such crimes were successfully convicted by the Haryana Police in the first quarter of 2021, the police informed on Sunday.
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Man accused of raping British woman in Goa held in Karnataka
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], April 11 (ANI): A man accused of raping a British tourist in Goa was held in Karnataka's Hoskote, almost seven months after he escaped for the second time from jail in Colvale.
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Pak parliamentary panel endorses jail for criticising armed forces; slamme
Updated : 5 years, 3 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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Navalny's defense team files new complaint with European Court of Human Ri
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Alexey Navalny's lawyer has told German Der Spiegel magazine that the defense team of the jailed Russian opposition activist had filed new complaints with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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SC adjourns plea of Mukhtar Ansari's wife
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the plea of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's wife Afshan Ansari alleging 'grave threat' to the life of her husband, whom the top court had recently directed to be shifted to Uttar Pradesh from a jail in Punjab
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Turkey sentences 32 to life in jail for failed coup in 2016
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], April 8 (ANI/Xinhua): A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 32 people, including former soldiers, to life in jail for their involvement in the 2016 defeated coup, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
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Navalny says 'continuing hunger strike' despite high temperature, bad coug
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 8 (ANI): Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is continuing his hunger strike despite a high temperature and a bad cough, according to a post shared by his team on his official Instagram account.
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Chinese satirist jailed over critical comments against Communist Party
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Henan [China], April 7 (ANI): A local court in China's Henan province has handed a jail term of over a year to an online influencer after he posted several critical comments about life under the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Twitter.
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