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Uyghur woman in Xinjiang sentenced to 20-yr imprisonment for speaking to T
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 23 (ANI): A Uyghur woman has been sentenced to 20-year imprisonment for speaking to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to China's Xinjiang region in 2012, said a media report citing the woman's husband.
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Moscow court sentences Kremlin critic Navalny to 9 years in prison
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], March 22 (ANI): A Russian court on Tuesday, sentenced Opposition figure Alexey Navalny to nine years to prison and fined him 1.2 million rubles (USD 11,527) in separate criminal cases of fraud and contempt of court in a move that is being seen as a crackdown on the Kremlin c
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Prisoners in Bhopal Central jail get training to become priests
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 20 (ANI): In Bhopal Central Jail, the prisoners, who are sentenced for heinous crimes, are taking lessons to perform various Vedic rituals so that they can become purohits (priests) and earn an honourable living when they are released from the jail.
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Chinese national gets 9-year prison term in Ethiopia for smuggling telecom
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], March 16 (ANI): A court in Ethiopia has sentenced a Chinese national to nine years in jail for reportedly trying to smuggle highly censored communication gear into the country, local media reported citing the country's ministry of justice on Wednesday.
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Uyghur farmer serving 8-year sentence for saving wife from forced abortion
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 16 (ANI): A Uyghur farmer, sentenced to eight-year imprisonment for saving his wife from forced abortion, died in jail in 2020, said a media report citing another Uyghur in the know of the development and local police officials.
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Sudanese Court sentences ex-chief of staff to 9 years over attempted coup:
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Khartoum [Sudan], March 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A military court in Sudan sentenced former chief of staff Hashim Abdel Muttalib to nine years in jail on Monday for his role in a 2019 coup attempt, a source familiar with the ruling told Sputnik.
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Delhi HC asks Centre to make clear instructions on plea seeking diplomatic
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to make clear instructions on a petition seeking to facilitate diplomatic interventions and negotiations on behalf of a woman, who has been sentenced to death by a Yemen Court for the murder of a Yemeni nation
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British-Pakistani man gets life imprisonment by UK jury for conspiring to
Updated : 4 years ago IST
London [UK], March 12 (ANI): A 31-year-old British Pakistani man Muhammad Gohir Khan, charged for conspiring to kill Netherlands-based blogger and activist, Ahmad Waqass Goraya was sentenced to life in prison at the Kingston-upon-Thames court on Friday.
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Plea in Delhi HC seeks diplomatic interventions by Centre to save woman co
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 12 (ANI): A petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking to facilitate diplomatic interventions and negotiations on behalf of a woman, who has been sentenced to death by a Yemen Court, for the murder of a Yemeni national in 2017.
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'Empire' star Jussie Smollett sentenced to 5 months in jail for staging ha
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 11 (ANI): Actor Jussie Smollett, widely known for his role in 'Empire', was sentenced to five months in jail on Thursday for staging a hate crime in which he lied to authorities about being jumped by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him.
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US Sheriff to serve four years behind bars for assaulting detainees: Justi
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 11 (ANI/Sputnik): A county sheriff in the US state of Arkansas was sentenced to four years in prison for using unreasonable force to punish two people in his custody, the Justice Department said in a press release.
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China: Uyghur scholar gets 10-year imprisonment for promoting separatism,
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): A Uyghur professor and translator has been sentenced to 10-year imprisonment in China's Xinjiang for "separatism" and "promoting Western culture", said a media report citing a village official and the convicted man's former Uyghur classmate.
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