Tag: imprisonment
“My imprisonment helped draw attention to illegal whaling”
After five months in detention in Greenland, Paul Watson was released on Tuesday, December 17 after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request. The American-Canadian environmental activist, 74, was arrested in Nuuk…
The author of a feminicide which shocked Italy sentenced to life imprisonment
The Venice Court of Assizes sentenced Filippo Turetta, a 22-year-old student, to life in prison on Tuesday, December 3, who stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Giulia Cecchettin, to death in November 2023,…
Such is the Russian remand prison, which Ukrainians call hell on earth Foreign countries
Ukrainian reporter Viktoria Roshchina27, was missing for more than a year. In August 2023, Roštšina was on a business trip in eastern Ukraine and disappeared. More than a year later,…
Carola about the difficult times – was threatened and risked imprisonment
Carola Häggkvist, 58, broke through successfully as a 16-year-old when she won the Melodifestivalen in 1983 with “Främling”. After the victory in the Schlagerfestivalen, she has managed to participate four…
Former head of China’s central bank sentenced to death | News in brief
Fan Yifei is the highest-ranking executive in China’s financial sector who has been arrested during an anti-corruption program launched by President Xi Jinping. Former Vice Governor of the People’s Bank…
Gang leader in Växjö is suspected of murder – the prosecutor wants life imprisonment
The trial against the man is held in the security room at Attunda district court in Sollentuna. There sits the suspected gang leader singled out for having shot a 23-year-old…
Peter Cherif sentenced to life imprisonment
The jihadist Peter Cherif was sentenced this Thursday, October 3 in Paris to life imprisonment for his role in Yemen with Chérif Kouachi, one of the attackers of the Charlie…
Singapore convicted a minister for the first time in decades | News in brief
Corruption convictions are rare in Singapore. On Thursday, Singapore’s court sentenced the country’s former transport minister, 62 years old By Subramaniam Iswaran for one year in prison for corruption crimes,…
Imprisonment and deportation for the bike thieves in Funäsdalen
It was at the beginning of August that the two men were caught red-handed when they stole a bicycle in Funäsdalen.The police were able to arrest one of the men…
When opposition politician Andrei Pivovarov sat in Karelia as a political prisoner, others were not even allowed to look at him | Foreign countries
Andrei Pivovarov was still sitting in prison two months ago near the Finnish border, in the Republic of Karelia in Russia. At the weekend, he spoke in Helsinki at an…