Rawle Jeremie said he was sorry for having delivered 2 kilograms of cocaine to a Bethlehem home in 1988, but a Northampton County judge wasn’t impressed. “That’s a baloney expression,” Judge Robert E.
On 1 July 2015, Turkey’s Constitutional Court rescinded columnist Bekir Coşkun's suspended 14-month prison sentence for "insulting" public officials. The court opined that "acceptable limits to ...
The draconian sentence passed on Ilham Tohti, an academic and member of China's Uyghur minority is a travesty of justice, PEN International said, reiterating its call for his immediate and ...
The European Court of Human Rights rules against Turkey in the case of journalist Sakine Aktan, who was punished by Turkey for interviewing the head of the Kurdistan Journalists Association. The ...
(Berlin) – The 26-year sentence for Zaid Saidov, a prominent member of Tajikistan’s beleaguered political opposition, strikes a blow to freedom of expression and democracy in Tajikistan, Human Rights ...
Prosecutor Şahin demands prison sentences for the Diyarbakır mayor and the Democratic Society Party representative for describing the Kurdistan Workers Party militants as guerillas. The suspects say ...
Thai pro-democracy Member of Parliament and woman human rights defender Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison under Thailand’s lèse-majesté law and ...
(New York) - The military court's sentencing of the blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison is a serious setback to freedom of expression in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today.