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Benzema handed suspended prison sentence in sex-tape trial
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Paris [France], November 24 (ANI): France striker Karim Benzema on Wednesday was given a one-year suspended prison sentence after he was found guilty of blackmailing his former France international teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
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US charges 3 operators in $155mln investment fraud: Justice Department
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Three operators of a defunct financial firm with clients in the US, South America and Europe face prison sentences of up to 70 years for their roles in an investment fraud scheme that resulted in losses of $155 million for clients, the Justice Depa
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UK Foreign Secretary decries prison sentences for Belarusian Opposition fi
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 6 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday condemned the lengthy prison sentences handed to Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Maksim Znak by a Minsk court, and urged President Alexander Lukashenko's government to release all politica
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Zuma's corruption trial case postponed to September
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Johannesburg, [South Africa], August 11 (ANI/Xinhua): South African former president Jacob Zuma's corruption and money laundering trial at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal was postponed to September 9 and 10 this year due to his hospitalization, said Judge Piet Koen Tuesday.
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South Africa's ex-president Zuma turns himself in for 15-month prison term
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa] July 8 (ANI): Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday handed himself over to the police to serve a 15-month prison sentence.
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South Africa's ex-president Zuma refuses to serve 15-month prison sentence
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], July 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Jacob Zuma, South Africa's former president, on Sunday announced his refusal to serve his 15-months prison sentence.
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang given long prison sentences
Updated : 4 years, 8 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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Spain pardons 9 leaders over failed Catalonia independence drive
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], June 23 (ANI): Spain's government on Tuesday pardoned nine leaders serving prison sentences for their roles in Catalonia's failed 2017 independence drive, announced Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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Karnataka Health Minister condemns attack on female doctor on COVID duty
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 25 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Monday condemned the attack on a female doctor, who was on COVID-19 duty the previous day, and said it is a punishable offense in which the perpetrators could be given a prison sentence of five years.
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UK condemns new sentence for dual citizen in Iran
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], April 26 (ANI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Monday condemned the new one-year prison sentence that was issued by an Iranian court to UK-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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Sarkozy to challenge prison sentence on corruption charges
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The court's verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was found guilty of corruption, will be challenged, the politician's lawyer Jacqueline Laffont said.
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Baseless imprisonments surge in China's Xinjiang province: Human Rights Wa
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New York [US], February 24 (ANI): The Chinese government has increased its "groundless prosecutions" with long prison sentences for Uyghurs and other minority communities in recent years in China's Xinjiang province, according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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