Sarah Rainsford Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent EPA Sergei Tikhanovsky was so ematiated after his release that even his daughter didn’t recognise him Sergei Tikhanovsky has barely spoken for more than five years. All that time he was held in solitary confinement in a high security Belarusian prison for daring to stand up to a...
Two South African engineers have returned home after spending more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea on what the UN has called “arbitrary and illegal” drugs charges. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, were arrested in February 2023 after drugs were allegedly found in their luggage. They were sentenced to...
Brian Farmer BBC News, Buckinghamshire Reporting fromLuton Crown Court Alice Cunningham BBC News, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Police Joanne Pearson (left) and Teohna Grant (right) died at the scene in Santa Cruz Avenue in Bletchley in December A paranoid father who stabbed two women to death on Christmas Day while high on drugs has been jailed...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has...
A woman who worked as an NHS psychiatrist for more than 20 years after she got the job with a fake qualification has been ordered to pay back more than £400,000 or face more jail time. Zholia Alemi, of Burnley, worked across the UK after forging a degree certificate from the University of Auckland in...
Reuters Inmates broke down doors and locks of their cells and shattered windows before storming the prison gates. More than 200 prisoners escaped from a jail in Pakistan’s largest city following an earthquake in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Thousands of inmates broke down doors and the locks of their cells and shattered...
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa after she got extraordinary access to an ICE detention center in Colorado, where she interviewed the immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. The undocumented mother of four was arrested by federal agents in Denver in March after she successfully fought multiple deportation efforts since 2009, including when...
A Canadian man has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for stealing a famous photograph of Winston Churchill known as “The Roaring Lion”. Jeffrey Wood had pleaded guilty to stealing the original print from Ottawa’s Château Laurier hotel between Christmas 2021 and early January 2022. He also admitted committing forgery. The photo of...
CCTV shows inmates escaping New Orleans jail Ten prisoners, several of them facing murder charges, have escaped from a New Orleans jail and may have had help from staff inside the facility, authorities say. The inmates are thought to have fled around midnight, and were discovered missing during a headcount at 08:30 local time (13:30...
In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi recounts the traumatic experience of his arrest and incarceration. Mahdawi, a green card holder who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in Vermont on April 14 when...
As Britons have expressed their growing anger about the de-Britainization of once-Great Britain, the Establishment has mobilized the oppressive powers of the state to shut them up. Until about 10 seconds ago, you could get a visit from the police for saying that migrants should be forced to learn English or that mass migration has...
Former Australia cricketer Stuart MacGill has avoided jail after being found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine. The 54-year-old was given a 22-month intensive corrections order and 495 hours of community service on Friday. MacGill pleaded not guilty but had admitted to the use of cocaine and to introducing his brother-in-law to his...
Due process for me, not for thee. This story seems to put to rest the Democrats’ commitment to due process. A Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll has found that 7 out of 10 Democrats would like to see a law passed that would put Elon Musk in jail. FULL STORY:https://t.co/EqwfwI5MAs — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 8,...
Criminals who refuse to attend sentencing in England and Wales could face an additional two years in prison, under a new bill to be introduced to Parliament on Wednesday. Additional powers for judges to punish offenders absent from sentencing will mean they cannot “opt out” of justice, victims’ families have said. “It is not about...
Hong Kong has released four former opposition lawmakers who were among dozens of pro-democracy leaders jailed under the city’s controversial National Security Law (NSL). The four – Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan – had pleaded guilty and were each sentenced to four years and two months behind bars in November. They...