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A man who tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years, the joint-longest prison sentence in connection with the UK's summer of riots. Levi Fishlock smashed windows and stoked a flaming bin at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, during a spate of disorder on 4 August. Fishlock, 31, of Sheffield Road, Barnsley, initially denied violent disorder and arson with […]
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a prominent journalist to six months in prison for defaming a civil servant, according to his lawyer. Both Mohammed Boughalleb's brother and attorney said he had faced charges of insulting a public official. He was detained in the capital, Tunis, last month following a complaint from the official who works in the religious affairs ministry. Reports say the official accused Boughalleb of "damaging her […]
A woman has been jailed for taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-east London, travelled to Kenya in 2006 where she took the child to a private house for the procedure, the court heard. At the Old Bailey, Noor was handed a sentence of seven years in prison. She was the first person to be convicted of assisting a […]
Russian woman Darya Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for the killing of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky last April. Tatarsky was killed by a bomb in a statuette Trepova gave him, as he was about to give a talk in St Petersburg. Dozens were injured in the blast. Trepova, 26, denied the charges, saying she thought the statuette contained a listening device. She said she had […]
Thailand's former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has been jailed upon returning to the country after 15 years in exile. But many believe he has struck a deal that will keep him from serving more than a short period in prison. BBC reported that he arrived on Tuesday morning in a private jet, ahead of a vote for the next Thai leader - the frontrunner is from his Pheu Thai party. He was then sentenced to eight years, on former criminal convictions […]
