Tunisian rights activist sentenced to 25 years in prison

Moroccan 'neo-Nazi' plotted attacks on Muslims, Jews and LGBTQ people, French court finds

A French court sentenced six men from a neo-Nazi ultraright milieu to prison terms of up to seven years in a case involving weapons trafficking and alleged plans for violent attacks. Five defendants, aged between 22 and 25, were convicted of terrorist criminal association, while a sixth man, a 61-year-old retired police officer, was convicted [] The post Moroccan 'neo-Nazi' plotted attacks on Muslims, Jews and LGBTQ people, French court finds appeared first on HESPRESS English - Morocco News.

A resident of Kaspiysk was convicted in a case of financing militants.

The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a resident of Dagestan, Bilal Gasanov, to nine years in prison for financing a terrorist organization banned in Russia, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.*

Prarieland ICE protesters sentenced to decades in prison in ‘antifa’ case

Prairieland ICE detention center shooter Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday, with others getting 30 years or more for their role in a July 4, 2025 immigration protest turned violent. Song was convicted of attempted murder for shooting and injuring an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center during the []

Tunisia upholds eight-year jail term for anti-racism activist

A Tunisian court on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence slapped on anti-racism activist Saadia Mosbah for financial misconduct, two of her lawyers said

Frenchman jailed in missing body case confesses to killing wife, says his lawyer

Cédric Jubillar, 38, was in October sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering Delphine Jubillar, 33, following a trial that gripped France but in which he had always maintained his innocence

Damascus To Bogota: The Syrian Insider Headed To U.S. Prison For A Weapons-For-Cocaine Pipeline

A federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Antoine Kassis to 30 years in prison today, locking away a major middleman who bridged the gap between Middle Eastern weapons stockpiles and South American drug cartels. Kassis, a dual Lebanese-Syrian national, received a 30-year sentence for narco-terrorism conspiracy and a concurrent 20-year sentence for conspiring to provide material support [] Damascus To Bogota: The Syrian Insider Headed To U.S. Prison For A Weapons-For-Cocaine Pipeline

More Than 50 Convicted for Srebrenica Crimes, Victims Call for Continued Justice

More than fifty individuals have been sentenced to over 700 years in prison, including several life sentences, for crimes committed during the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. Verdicts have been delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and courts in Serbia, although victims and experts continue [] The post More Than 50 Convicted for Srebrenica Crimes, Victims Call for Continued Justice appeared first on Sarajevo Times.

Monnapula Abel Lobese Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for 2019 Setlagole Rape Conviction

NORTHERN CAPE — A 21-year-old man, Monnapula Abel Lobese, has received a life sentence from the Atamelang Regional Court following his conviction for the rape of a 15-year-old girl. The sentencing was formally handed down on Monday, 29 June 2026, concluding a case that originated from a violent armed attack in 2019. The charges stem []

Protester Tamar Lortkipanidze Reaches Plea Deal, Set to Leave Prison in Four Months

Tamar Lortkipanidze, a protester who climbed onto a police car during an anti-government rally on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue on October 22, 2025, has reached a plea deal and been sentenced to one year in prison. Having already spent eight months in pre-trial detention, she will therefore be released in four months. Initially arrested on “hooliganism”

German court jails 12 members of Nigerian ‘love scam’ network

The court in Munich said those convicted were aged between 34 and 55 and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three years and four months to eight-and-a-half years. The post German court jails 12 members of Nigerian ‘love scam’ network appeared first on Vanguard News.

Frenchman jailed in missing body case confesses to killing wife, lawyer says

Cedric Jubillar was sentenced to 30 years in prison following a trial that gripped France but in which he had always maintained his innocence

Censorship by detention: How collective action can help free arbitrarily detained defenders

Sustained advocacy, legal action and international solidarity can help secure the release of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders. In 2026, Belarusian defender Marfa Rabkova and Togolese defender Abdoul Aziz Goma were released after years of arbitrary detention. Their cases, alongside cases from Nicaragua and Tunisia, were examined at the Observatory's 2025 Inter-Mechanisms Meeting. This follow-up paper summarises the meeting's findings and highlights collective strategies to () - Human Rights Defenders

Light sentence for pro-Palestinian protester in fatal attack on pro-Israeli sparks California outrage

Pro-Palestine activist Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji received a light sentence of one year in county jail in relation to the death of 69-year-old Paul Kessler. Kessler and Alnaji got into an altercation during a demonstration in Thousand Oaks, near Los Angeles, Calif., in November 2023, per NBC News. Alnaji will also serve two years of...

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev is sentenced in absentia to five and a half years in prison for founding the ‘undesirable’ Andrei Sakharov Institute

The Khoroshevsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced Lev Ponomarev, an 84-year-old human rights activist, in absentia to five and a half years in prison, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.

I’m being punished for standing against corruption, injustice – Sowore

African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, says he is being punished for standing up for his rights and every Nigerian. Sowore spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’ on Friday. The activist has just been released from the Kuje correctional facility after being bailed in the tune of N200 million in [] I’m being punished for standing against corruption, injustice – Sowore

Human rights activists sentenced to life in prison over soldier's death

An anti-terrorism court in southwestern Pakistan has sentenced two human rights activists to life in prison over the 2024 death of a paramilitary soldier during a rally in the port city of Gwadar

CRIEF : la peine de Kassory Fofana réduite à 3 ans et 9 mois de prison

La Chambre des appels de la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et financières (CRIEF) a rendu, ce jeudi 2 juillet 2026, sa décision dans le procès de l’ancien Premier ministre guinéen, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. La juridiction a partiellement réformé le jugement rendu en première instance, réduisant notamment la peine d’emprisonnement de 5 ans à 3 ans et 9 [] The post CRIEF : la peine de Kassory Fofana réduite à 3 ans et 9 mois de prison first appeared on Guineematin.com.

Amnesty International slams Pakistan over life sentences for Baloch Yakjehti Committee leaders

Amnesty International has strongly condemned the life imprisonment sentences handed down to prominent Baloch activists Dr Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Jee, describing the verdict as a violation of fair trial standards and evidence of Pakistan's alleged misuse of anti-terrorism laws to suppress peaceful dissent.

Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: 94 Female Prisoners in Damon Prison

Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: 94 Female Prisoners in Damon Prison

Death penalty for 65-year-old for rape, murder of girl, 3; verdict in 60 days

Death penalty for 65-year-old for rape, murder of girl, 3; verdict in 60 days

Kosovo Court Finds Bosniak Guilty of War Crimes After Retrial

Retrial upholds Ekrem Bajrovic's 12-year prison sentence for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians In the Istog/Istok area, including beatings, torture and killings.

Venezuelan Illegal Alien Sentenced to Twenty-Seven Months in Federal Prison for Possession of Firearms

Robinson Abraham Esparragoza Regalado, 27, a citizen of Venezuela who resided in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said: “Under the leadership []

Antifa Terror Cell Leader Sent To Slammer For Rest Of His Life In Landmark Sentencing

Antifa cell leader Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday for a 2025 terrorist attack on an immigration facility. The Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced Song and seven others involved in the July

US court sentences key figure in drug trafficking networks linked to deposed regime

Washington, July 4 (SANA)– A U.S. federal court in the state of Virginia sentenced Antoine Kassis, one of the leading figures in drug trafficking networks linked to Syria’s deposed regime to 30 years in prison after convicting him of providing material support to a terrorist organization and carrying out cross-border money laundering operations. According to []

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

Six years in prison for man who sold out the very victims he was hired to represent.

Murderer’s body found in B.C. waters after escape from prison

The Correctional Service of Canada said the inmate was 69 and had been serving a life sentence for second-degree murder since 1991.

How Lyhanna's rape and murder put France's justice system under scrutiny | AJ #shorts

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Antifa cell leader sentenced to 100 years for attack on Texas ICE facility

A Texas man described by prosecutors as the leader of an Antifa cell has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for the attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, in which a police officer was shot in the neck. Seven other defendants were also sentenced to decades in prison. Benjamin Hanil Song [] The post Antifa cell leader sentenced to 100 years for attack on Texas ICE facility appeared first on BNO News.