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Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in a case in which he was accused of leaking state secrets. Khan, who was ousted by his opponents as PM in 2022, is already serving a three-year jail term after being convicted of corruption. He has called all the charges against him politically motivated. The conviction under the secrets act comes the week before general […]
More than 120 Indonesians who say Australia wrongly jailed them as adults - when in fact they were children - have settled a major class action suit. The government has agreed to pay more than A$27m (£14m,$17m) to the victims, who were jailed and, in some cases, prosecuted as people smugglers. At the time of their detention, some of the children were as young as 12. It is the latest […]
French rapper MHD has been given a 12-year jail term for the murder of a young man in Paris in 2018. A court in the capital found the 29-year-old MHD, real name Mohamed Sylla, guilty of involvement in the gang-related killing of Loic K, 23. The victim was knocked down by MHD's Mercedes, then beaten and stabbed to death by a crowd of about 12 people. MHD, who is known […]
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been freed from serving further time in prison after being granted a remission status. Remission status is granted to low-risk and non-violent offenders. Justice Minister Ronald Lamola told the media that the remission decision was taken to address overcrowding in prisons. He says that this "remission process" started in April. Zuma handed himself over at Escourt prison, in KwaZulu-Natal at 0600 local time […]
A 33-year-old woman, Olufunmilayo Erioluwa, who was accused of assaulting a policeman and later freed by a court, has said she was made to suffer over a dog. According to the hairstylist, she was unjustly detained and remanded in the Kirikiri Custodial Centre because the dog owner was connected to the police. She was released on June 27 after 44 days in prison. She expressed gratitude to a human rights […]
