Tag: jail
Reuters reporters sentenced to 7 years in prison
A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them…
Former police officer sentenced to 15 years for killing teenager
Texas jurors sentenced former police officer Roy Oliver to 15 years of jail for murdering a black teenager, local media…
Pakistan’s ex-PM Sharif develops health complications in jail
Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has developed health complications in jail and should be shifted to a hospital, a…
Ex-South Korean president Park sentenced to 8 more years
A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her…
Former vice governor sentenced to 15 years for bribery
Yu Haiyan, former vice governor of China’s Gansu Province, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 6 million…
Students jailed 2 years for unlawful possession of firearms
A Plateau Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Monday, sentenced two students of the Federal College of…
Pakistan’s ex-PM Sharif sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption
A court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in jail in a corruption…
Hemp trafficker jailed for 12 months
A 30-year-old man, Paul Asikawili, is to spend the next 12 months in jail for drug trafficking, according to a…
2 drug traffickers sent to jail for 5 months
For trafficking in hard drugs, two men — Femi Oloye and Ayomide Oladiti — were on Tuesday sent to jail…
Japan’s senior citizens commit crimes because they want to go to jail
Japan is constructing special prison wards just for elderly inmates to address the record number of crimes committed by senior…
Man jailed 5 months for snatching handbag
An FCT Area Court, on Monday, sentenced 27-year-old Ibrahim Abdullahi, to five months imprisonment for snatching a lady’s handbag. The…
Italy’s highest Court upholds 16-year jail sentence for Captain Concordia
Italy's highest court has upheld the 16-year jail sentence given to the captain of the Costa Concordia, which capsized in…
2 men jailed for criminal conspiracy
A Makurdi Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced two men – Stephen Vagi, 31, and Tersoo Adoon, 28 – to six…
Farmer Jailed 8 Years
A Katsina State High Court sitting in Malumfashi on Wednesday sentenced a farmer, Yusuf Abdullahi of Baraunku village in Kankara…
Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman to remain in prison till July 4
Two former ministers and directors of Media and Finance respectively of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Organisation in the…