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Belarus sentences Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison

A court in Belarus on Friday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, a verdict likely to be strongly condemned by Western human rights groups.

France 24

What’s next for Alex Murdaugh after guilty verdict and life sentence?

Whatever the verdict had been in the murder case, Murdaugh was never walking out of court a free man

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering his wife and son in case that gripped US

South Carolina lawyer given two ‘whole life’ terms without parole after case judge called ‘one of the most troubling’ he had dealt with

Evening Standard

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Frenchman remains in Iran prison despite acquittal, lawyer says

French citizen Benjamin Briere is still in an Iranian jail despite his recent acquittal by an appeals court, his lawyer has said.

Radio France Internationale

Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib acquitted of tampering with 1MDB audit

Former leader will remain in prison where he is serving a 12-year sentence on other charges related to the 1MDB scandal.

Al Jazeera

Publisher behind Xi biography released from China prison

A Hong Kong-based publisher who was arrested while preparing to release an unauthorized biography of Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been freed after serving a 10-year sentence in a south China prison

The Independent UK

Coroner hands down inquest findings into Indigenous prisoner's death in Cessnock jail

When he was growing up, his principal told his family their gifted boy could be the first Aboriginal astronaut. At the age of 37, he died in a NSW prison cell.

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Malaysian jailed ex-leader Najib acquitted of audit tampering charge

Jailed former prime minister Najib Razak was acquitted of an audit tampering charge, a judge said Friday, but will continue to serve his 12-year prison term from another case.

Bangkok Post

Murderer who tortured Adelaide woman Tracy Muzyk to be released from prison within months

One of five people convicted over the horrific and torturous murder of young Adelaide woman Tracy Muzyk in 1996 will be eligible for release from jail in two months, after South Australia's Supreme Court set a new non-parole period.

ABC News

What’s next for Alex Murdaugh after guilty verdict? Sentence and financial crimes case still to come

Whatever the verdict had been in the murder case, Murdaugh was never walking out of court a free man

The Independent UK

Drugs, jacuzzis and a horse: the anarchic Philippines prison where anything can be bought

After raids at the New Bilibid prison identified thousands of contraband goods, the management of the country’s prisons is in the spotlight

The Guardian - AU

Ex-wrestler pleads guilty again in Mississippi welfare fraud

A former pro wrestler has pleaded guilty to a federal charge tied to misspending of welfare money that was supposed to help needy families in Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the U.S. Brett DiBiase entered the guilty plea Thursday and faces up to five years in federal prison…

The Independent UK

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel rushed to hospital from prison

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has been rushed to hospital from Barwon prison in Victoria after feeling unwell, four years after a traumatic brain injury.

The New Daily

James ‘Tim’ Norman of ‘Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s’ gets life sentence for murder plot

Restaurant manager from reality show arranged shooting death of his nephew to collect a life insurance payment.

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The Independent UK

Former mayor, Mormon bishop gets prison for child sex abuse

A former Utah city mayor and one-time bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will likely spend the rest of his life in prison on child sexual abuse charges

ABC News

Victorian crime boss Tony Mokbel taken from prison to hospital

Convicted drug trafficker and crime boss Tony Mokbel has been taken to hospital from Victoria's maximum-security Barwon Prison for unknown reasons.

The Independent UK

Number of imprisoned veterans concerns former defense chiefs

Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members

The Independent UK

Former Sweetie Pie’s star Timothy Norman sentenced to life in prison for plotting nephew’s murder

The disgraced reality TV star and his nephew, 21-year-old Andre Montgomery, both starred in the long-running OWN show

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SCOTUS Questions the Government's Absurdly Broad Definition of 'Aggravated Identity Theft'

According to the Justice Department's reading of the law, the crime need not involve impersonation or even fraud.

Irish Mirror

Prison term for man who left victim with huge wound after 'savage' slashing in Dublin

In his statement to gardai, the victim said he had no memory of the attack and only remembers waking up in the Mater Hospital with his face “ripped apart”

ABC News

How love and rebellion helped queer convicts form unbreakable bonds in Van Diemen's Land

In 1997, Tasmania became the last Australian state to decriminalise sex between men, and one activist believes that enduring homophobia can be directly traced to the penal colonies of the island's past.

The Independent UK

Innocent man freed 38 years after imprisonment for murder as DNA test reveals another suspect

Maurice Hastings walked out of court a free man on Wednesday nearly four decades after being imprisoned for a murder he did not commit

Daily Mirror

Man proved innocent after spending 38 years behind bars for murder he didn't commit

Maurice Hastings was released from prison after DNA was proven not to be his last year in Los Angeles, US. His request for a DNA test back in 2000 had been rejected

ABC News

Leetona has relived her son's final moments for years — an inquiry left her with more questions than answers

David Dungay Jr died while being restrained by corrective officers in a cell at Long Bay Prison Hospital in 2015 — now his family is trying to help others navigate NSW's "overburdened" coronial system.

Liverpool Echo

Man jailed for brutal murder found hiding in Scotland after going on the run

Paul Gerrard, 40, absconded from open prison in December

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