I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been to jail – as a visitor, that is. Whether interviewing terrorists languishing at ‘her majesty’s pleasure,’ interrogating war criminals in Sierra Leone or hopping on a gurney inside Mississippi State Penitentiary’s lethal injection chamber, I’ve seen enough of the global …
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On Tuesday, Moscow City Court ruled that Navalny had failed to regularly report to the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), and his excuse for non-appearance was deemed insufficient. Therefore, the judge decided that the suspended judgment should be converted into a real one. The anti-corruption activist was originally sentenced in 2014 …
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Footage available on social media shows several police officers placing Yulia into a van and driving away, as supporters chant her name. She was taking part in a protest staged on Sunday in Moscow to support her husband and is one of dozens taken into police custody in the capital. …
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Last Saturday saw a number of violent clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators, which appears to have triggered a even larger police response ahead of the latest events. In Moscow, security services have erected metal barriers, closing off the city center, including the area around the Kremlin. In an unprecedented step, …
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The liberal-leaning Echo of Moscow radio station reported on Saturday that Navalnaya had been detained on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in the capital’s Central Administrative District. Video circulated by eyewitnesses purports to show her being loaded into a police truck. Posting on Instagram shortly afterwards, the opposition figure’s wife apologized to …
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Around 250 people have rallied at a central square in the large Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, according to the mayor’s office. The protesters demand that Navalny be released. The numbers are low compared to last year’s marches in support of former local governor Sergey Furgal, from the nationalist LDPR …
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The teen, Georgia resident Skylar Mack, along with her boyfriend Vanjae Ramgeet were both handed reduced punishments on Tuesday, Mack’s attorney Jonathan Hughes told CBS. “Whilst it was our hope that Skylar would be able to return home to resume her studies in January, we accept the decision of the …
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Gamer accused of illegally hacking software code owned by Blizzard. The court of South Korea sentenced him to a year in prison the Creator of cheats for the online shooter Overwatch. According to reports, a convicted gamer generated game analogue of 200 million Korean won with the help of hacking …
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Citizen of Russia was sentenced to a prison term for assaulting a paramedic and a police officer. Lychakiv district court of Lviv sentenced to one year and ten months of imprisonment the citizen of Russia for the pogrom in the registry office, beating the nurses of the hospital and police. …
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Artyom Geodakyan/TASS “Dear viewers! I consider it necessary to warn You that I may be brought to trial and sentenced to date. This for me is as unexpected as it is to You, so let me explain”, — began his speech Vladimir Pozner in the next edition of the author’s …
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