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Green News

Just Stop Oil activists get record sentences for peaceful protest

Protesters behind 2022's M25 shutdown have been handed four and five year prison sentences.

19/07/2024

China

Journalist and activist in China’s first #MeToo case jailed

Huang Xueqin & Wang Jianbing helped spark China’s first #MeToo case in 2018. Working as a freelance journalist, Huang publicised allegations of sexual harassment made by a graduate student against her Ph.D. supervisor at one of China’s most prestigious universities.

14/06/2024

Norway

Breivik fails to sue state for alleged breach of his human rights

“Breivik has good physical prison conditions and relatively great freedom in everyday life” the court said.

15/02/2024

Russia

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza moved to unknown location

The 42-year-old, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for high treason, is currently missing after being transferred to an unknown location.

30/01/2024

Business

Why executives of Carlsberg's Russian brewery face 10 years in prison

The alleged fraud highlights the difficulties that Western firms and their executives face in trying to leave Russia.

20/11/2023

Business

What economic crime gets you 11,000 years in jail?

Faruk Fatih Özer, CEO of collapsed Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, was sentenced to 11,196 years in jail on Thursday.

08/09/2023

USA

Capitol riot extremist sentenced to 18 years in prison

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was dealt the longest prison sentence among the hundreds of Capitol riot cases on Thursday.

26/05/2023

France

Nicolas Sarkozy's prison sentence for corruption upheld

The 68-year-old former president was convicted in 2021 of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated.

17/05/2023

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His paintings are on display at the Champop gallery in Paris

An American artist wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment as a teenager, who collaborated on a Kim Kardashian documentary about the American prison system, is exhibiting his paintings in Paris.

15/05/2023

World News

Eight EU nations experienced overcrowded prisons, latest data shows

Latest data ranks prisons in Cyprus, Italy, France and Sweden among the most overfull.

14/05/2023

Culture news

Gary Glitter recalled to jail one month after release

Footage has emerged of Gary Glitter asking questions about how to access the dark web, which is in breach of his probation conditions.

15/03/2023

Greece

Fisherman facing 4,760 years in jail receives centuries-long sentence

The 45-year-old man had agreed to steer the migrant boat he was travelling on with his teenage son, in return for a cheaper fee paid to the smugglers.

07/03/2023

El Salvador

2,000 prisoners transferred to new 'mega-prison' in El Salvador

The first 2,000 gang members are transferred to the mega-prison "Terrorism Confinement Center" in El Salvador designed to hold 40,000 criminals. The mega prison was built on President Bukele's orders after he declared a "war" on gangs last March.

25/02/2023

Culture news

Weinstein begs for mercy as he is jailed for 16 more years for rape

The sentence after a second sexual misconduct trial in Los Angeles follows a 23-year term the Hollywood producer received in 2020 for a similar conviction in New York.

24/02/2023

Culture news

Disgraced pop star Gary Glitter freed from prison

British glam rock musician Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls

03/02/2023

France

Charles Sobhraj arrvies in France

The convicted murderer known as The Serpent has arrived in France after being released from prison on health grounds in Nepal.

24/12/2022

Turkey

Thousands gather in Istanbul to protest mayor's political ban

Leaders and representatives of the six opposition parties in the country joined Thursday's rally in support of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

15/12/2022

Culture news

11 men convicted of cyber harassing French singer Eddy de Pretto

The Paris Criminal Court ruled that it's unlawful to engage in "digital lynching" of a person whose public commitments and sexual orientation have had the misfortune of offending certain extremists.

13/12/2022

Culture news

Man who shot Lady Gaga's dog walker sentenced to 21 years in prison

The man who shot and wounded Lady Gaga’s dog walker while stealing her French bulldogs last year has taken a plea deal and been sentenced to 21 years in prison

06/12/2022

France

Record numbers behind bars in France

This year France has reached record numbers of people behind bars, with prison density at 120% compared to places available.

28/11/2022