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Senegal opposition politician handed light sentence, still viable for presidency

Senegal's leading opposition politician and presidential aspirant Ousmane Sonko on Thursday received a two-month suspended prison sentence for libel in a case involving the tourism minister, the minister's lawyer El Hadji Diouf said.

Reuters

How Charles Bronson would have spent his first day of freedom - including barefoot walk

Charles Bronson is the UK's most notorious prisoner and has been behind bars for most of his life - and he won't be getting out today after failing in another bid for freedom

Daily Mirror

As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word 'dope' means to him

After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop.

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Charles Bronson: UK's most violent prisoner loses bid to be freed from jail

Charles Bronson has spent most of the past 48 years behind bars for violent crimes, many of which have taken place while in prison.

Daily Record

Brutal way Charles Bronson was told bid for freedom had been REJECTED

The Parole Board concluded Charles Bronson lacks the 'skills to manage his risk of future violence' - the notorious offender was also denied a transfer to an open prison

Daily Mirror

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson to remain in prison as he loses bid for freedom

Bronson will remain behind bars after being refused parole

Liverpool Echo

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson loses Parole Board bid to be freed from jail

The decision came after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings.

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Charles Bronson to remain in jail after losing Parole Board bid for freedom

Bronson insisted he is now a reformed prisoner, has found solace in his art and is a man of ‘peace’.

Evening Standard

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson will not be freed from jail after losing parole bid

Bronson is one of UK’s longest-serving prisoners and dubbed one of Britain’s most violent offenders

The Independent UK

Charles Bronson loses bid to be set free

Charles Bronson is a British criminal who is known for his numerous violent and aggressive outbursts while in prison

Wales Online

Charles Bronson: UK's most violent inmate LOSES bid to be freed from prison

Charles Bronson, 70, has spent most of the past 48 years behind bars - earlier this month he became the second inmate in UK legal history to have his case heard in public after rules changed last year in a bid to remove the secrecy around the process

Daily Mirror

Charles Bronson: What did we learn about notorious prisoner at parole hearing?

The 70-year-old took part in parole board hearing in his latest bid for freedom

The Independent UK

HRW report on Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons highlights abuses

Some jail cells, the report says, are holding as many as 15 prisoners when they were designed for just three people.

Al Jazeera

Oscar Pistorius could be freed within weeks after serving half his sentence

Parole board in South Africa to decide if Paralympian who murdered his girlfriend can leave jail

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands of Prisoners in Lebanon at Risk of Starvation

Prisoners in crisis-hit Lebanon are not only deprived of their freedom - due to the constant postponement of trials as a result of judicial strikes – but also face a shortage of medical supplies, lack of hygiene, and an increasing risk of starvation. In fact, the prisons’ food crisis is…

The Independent UK

Oscar Pistorius eligible for parole, could be free this week

Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has applied for parole and is expected to attend a hearing on Friday that will decide if he can be released from prison 10 years after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Evening Standard

Get Ready With Me: the strange comfort of TikTok’s new confessional

Get Ready With Me videos have become the equivalent of ASMR on TikTok — soothing, sympathetic and relatable — even when they’re really not. From fentanyl addictions to prison stretches, here’s how the new breed of GRWM took root

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Influencers In France Could Face 2 Yrs In Jail For Posting A Selfie W/O Saying It’s Been Edited

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Wales Online

'Babes in the Wood' killer died after catching Covid while serving life sentence

Russell Bishop was convicted 32 years after the murders of two schoolgirls in a woodland den

The New Daily

Security watchdog wants terror laws reform

Terrorists left to rot in Australian jails long after their prison sentences expire could soon be offered a major reprieve. The national security watchdog

AAP

National security watchdog wants terror laws overhauled

A review of laws enabling the detention of terrorists after they have served their prison sentences is recommending the power be scrapped.

Reuters

Fugitive Russian father convicted of insulting army is detained in Belarus

A Russian man who was sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting the army and had his daughter taken from him has been detained in Belarus after fleeing house arrest, a lawyer said on Thursday.

Evening Standard

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrives in the United States after being freed from Kigali prison

The man who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’, Paul Rusesabagina, arrived in the United States after being released from prison in Rwanda last week.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Morocco Denies Amnesty International Claims on Gdeim Izik Prisoner Case

Morocco’s General Delegation for Prison Administration denied on Tuesday recent claims by Amnesty International regarding torture and human rights violations against a prisoner detained in connection with the Gdim Izik Incidents. The country’s prison authority said in a statement that the prisoner, detained at the local prison of Tiflet 2…

Radio France Internationale

Nantes cathedral volunteer sentenced to prison for arson

The parish volunteer who started a fire that severely damaged the 15th Century Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes in 2020 has been sentenced to four years in prison for arson.

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