A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja on Thursday sentenced a 39-year-old man, Amobi Chukwu to three months in prison for refusing to pay N48,000 debt. The Judge, Aliyu Alhassan, however gave the convict an option of N5, 000 fine.…
Black man who spent 44 years in prison before he was exonerated gets record $25M settlement
A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated. Ronnie Long,…
Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori released from prison
Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison on Wednesday ahead of the completion of his sentence for authorizing the operation of a death squad in his country, according to court documents and images of the ailing ex-leader outside…
Russian schoolboy gets 6 years in prison for arson
A 17-year-old schoolboy in Russia was sentenced to six-years in a prison camp on Thursday for attempted arson attacks against military facilities. The court in Saint Petersburg found him guilty of “attempted terrorism’’ for throwing Molotov cocktails at the buildings…
An ex-British cyberespionage employee gets life in prison for stabbing an American spy
A former British cyberespionage employee who had become angry and resentful toward his agency’s work was sentenced Monday to life in prison for attempted murder in the vicious stabbing of an American intelligence worker assigned to the U.K. Joshua Bowles,…
Former Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for Jan 6 attack on US Capitol
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating his far-right extremist group’s attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of presidential power after Donald Trump lost…
Navalny’s new trial to start Monday in his prison camp
A controversial trial of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was scheduled to officially start on Monday, his lawyer said. The Moscow Municipal Court travelling some 260 kilometres to the prison camp where Navalny is being held for the proceedings. Navalny…
Court remands man in prison over alleged defilement of lover’s daughter
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 41- year-old man, Nnamdi Dike, over alleged defilement of the 12-year-old daughter of his lover. The defendant, a security guard, who lives at 27, Salami St., Akute, Ogun…
Prison hit for barring inmate from attending mother’s funeral
Correctional authorities’ decision not to allow an inmate to leave prison to attend his mother’s funeral in 2021 was due to COVID-19. According to him, the reason was due to reasons of COVID-19 quarantine was a violation of human rights,…
Organ trafficking: UK court sentences Ekweremadu to 10 years imprisonment
The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while…
