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Prosecutors to seek 8-year prison term for Shakira in £12.2m Spanish tax fraud case

The Colombian singer is accused of failing to pay €14.5m (£12.2m) in tax income between 2012 and 2014

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2022

Egypt prosecutors deny prominent jailed activist faced harm

Egypt’s prosecutors are refuting allegations of torture and ill-treatment against one of the country's most prominent jailed activists

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

Attacker caught by DNA after three decades has sentence increased

Raymond Ellis will now serve seven and a half years in prison after the Attorney General argued his original punishment had been unduly lenient.

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

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Sarah Everard's killer destined to die in prison

The ex-police officer has failed in a bid to reduce his whole-life sentence at the Court of Appeal

Liverpool Echo · Jul 29, 2022

Violence has doubled in six months at London’s largest prison

Attacks among prisoners and against staff at Wandsworth have increased since its previous inspection, report finds

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2022

Dozens dead in Ukraine prison blast as both sides trade blame

Ukraine says Russia trying to hide fact that Ukrainian prisoners of war were ‘tortured and murdered’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

Ukraine's military blames Russia for strike that killed Ukrainian prisoners

Ukraine's military denied carrying out an attack on a prison in separatist-held territory that Russia's defence ministry said killed 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war on Friday, and blamed it on Russian forces.

Reuters · Jul 29, 2022

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If Trump were Black, he'd be in jail now

If you're Black in America, it's almost too easy to go to jail. Trump's whiteness protects him

Salon · Jul 29, 2022

Wife of executed Myanmar activist says fight for democracy must go on

Ma Nilar Thein says people must ‘eradicate this military regime’ as four prisoners executed after closed trials

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

Russia Says Shelling Killed Dozens of Ukrainian POWs

Russian-backed separatists said Friday that a Ukrainian attack with US-supplied missiles on a separatist eastern region hit a prison and killed 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were captured in Mariupol. There was no immediate confirmation of the attack from Ukraine. The attack with HIMARS multiple rocket launchers on the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 29, 2022

Father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes handed longer sentence for son’s killing

One of the killers of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes must spend longer in prison over the child’s death, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2022

Russia's Lavrov Says He Will Discuss US Prisoner Swap Offer

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that he's open to a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss a possible prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner. Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and another jailed…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 29, 2022

Russia's Lavrov says he will discuss US prisoner swap offer

Russia's top diplomat says he’s open to a call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss a possible prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens will die in prison after losing appeal to reduce sentence

Couzens’s lawyers argued he deserved 'decades in jail' but said a whole-life term was excessive

Wales Online · Jul 29, 2022

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Manchester Evening News · Jul 29, 2022

Former police officer Wayne Couzens loses bid to reduce whole-life prison sentence for Sarah Everard murder

His lawyers had argued the sentence was 'excessive'

Dublin Live · Jul 29, 2022

Ireland jobs: Irish Prison Service is hiring for full-time roles

The prison service is looking for 'conscientious, resilient, and adaptable' candidates

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

Sarah Everard murderer Wayne Couzens loses appeal against whole-life prison sentence

Court of Appeal told the way Couzens hunted down and killed his victim was a ‘fundamental attack on our way of life’

Daily Mirror · Jul 29, 2022

Killer cop Wayne Couzens will die in prison as he loses bid to cut jail term

In May, five judges heard challenges to or appeals against the prison sentences of five convicted killers including former cop Wayne Couzens and double murderer Ian Stewart

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Reuters · Jul 29, 2022

Spanish prosecutor asks for eight-year jail term for Shakira

A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of eight years for Colombian superstar Shakira over a 14.5 million-euro tax fraud case, a prosecutor's office document showed on Friday.

Reuters · Jul 29, 2022

Russia: 40 Ukrainian POWs killed by Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk prison

Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine struck a prison in separatist-held territory with U.S.-made HIMARS rockets on Friday, killing 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war and leaving 75 wounded, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2022

Separatists say shelling killed Ukrainian prisoners of war

Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling

Bangkok Post · Jul 29, 2022

Restorative Justice, the alternative tool of justice to erase retributive mindset for harmonious society

Thailand’s prison overcrowding is one of the most severe problems deteriorating its justice system and prisoners’ wellbeing. Meanwhile, the emergence of Covid-19 in Thailand and worldwide reverberates the concerns and sparks the need for the country’s justice system that should be less dependent on detention and imprisonment and must seek…

Reuters · Jul 29, 2022

Factbox-National political dialogue in Egypt follows years of crackdowns

Egypt plans to launch a national political dialogue in the coming weeks, a test of whether authorities are prepared to ease a crackdown on dissent that critics say is the most severe in the country's recent history.

Reuters · Jul 29, 2022

Detentions loom over Egypt's political dialogue

After nine years of sweeping crackdowns on dissent, Egypt is set to launch a carefully choreographed political dialogue, but the main Islamist opposition movement is excluded and critics say a parallel move to release prisoners is proceeding too slowly.

Liverpool Echo · Jul 29, 2022

"If you get a new man while I am in jail l will kill them and make you watch"

Robert Saxon was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday

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