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Nguyen Duc Kien. ©Reuters/Stringer Vietnam banking tycoon given 30-year jail term A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a disgraced banking tycoon to 30 years in jail over a multi-million dollar scandal that shocked the nation's already fragile financial markets.
09 июня 2014
Swiss sentence Guatemalan ex-police chief to life over prisoner killings Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen on Friday received a life sentence in Switzerland for seven murders committed in the Central American country.
09 июня 2014
Suspected Greek far-rightist jailed for stabbing teenager A Greek court on Wednesday sentenced a suspected activist of the far-right Golden Dawn party to 10 years in prison for stabbing a high-school student, judicial officials said.
05 июня 2014
Photo courtesy of lonelyplanet.com Three months for Swaziland editor who compared judge to a punk A Swaziland court on Friday sentenced a magazine editor to a suspended three-month term for articles written four years ago comparing the country's chief justice to a high school punk.
01 июня 2014
Photo courtesy of voiceofrussia.com N. Korea sentences S. Korean 'spy' to hard labour for life North Korea sentenced a South Korean missionary to hard labour for life after accusing him of espionage and setting up an underground church, state media said Saturday, the latest Christian preacher to run into trouble in the secretive state.
31 мая 2014
Jamil Mahuad. Photo courtesy of laprensalatina.com Ecuador sentences ex-president to 12 years in absentia An Ecuadoran court on Thursday sentenced exiled ex-president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in jail for corruption.
30 мая 2014
ICC sentences Congolese warlord Katanga to 12 years The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain "Simba" Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a "particularly cruel" 2003 village massacre.
23 мая 2014
Guatemala ex-leader gets six years in New York Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced in New York to five years and 10 months in prison Thursday for a $2.5 million bribery scandal.
23 мая 2014
Photo ©azattyq.org/ Svetlana Glushkova Grace church pastor sentenced to 4 years Pastor of the Grace Church Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev has been given a suspended 4-year sentence in Kazakhstan.
19 февраля 2014
The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. Photo© Danial Okasov Nazarbayev ratifies treaty with China on transfer of convicted Kazakhstanis President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has ratified the treaty with China on transferring Kazakhstani convicts to Kazakhstan.
25 ноября 2013
Argentine Roman Catholic priest Julio Cesar Grassi. ©Reuters/Marcos Brindicci Argentine pedophile priest begins 15-year jail sentence A well-known Argentine priest began a 15-year prison sentence for pedophilia Monday, four years after he was convicted.
24 сентября 2013
©REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez US plans lower sentences for drug users The United States announced plans Monday to reduce its use of mandatory sentences for drug offenses in order to tackle a cycle of poverty and incarceration in overcrowded jails.
13 августа 2013
New York court sentences cop killer to death A US federal court in New York on Wednesday sentenced convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection for a second time.
25 июля 2013
Russia condemned as Putin foe jailed for five years A Russian court's decision to sentence protest leader Alexei Navalny to five years in a penal colony on fraud charges has prompted global concern.
19 июля 2013
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announces federal indictments against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. ©REUTERS/Brian Snyder Accused Boston bomber to face 30 charges: prosecutors A US grand jury on Thursday indicted teenager Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on 30 counts in connection with the April double bomb attack on the Boston marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260.
28 июня 2013
Italian former premier Silvio Berlusconi. ©REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo Verdict expected in Berlusconi sex trial An Italian court is expected to deliver its verdict Monday on whether former premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with an underage prostitute and abused his official powers.
24 июня 2013
Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeff Skilling (C). ©REUTERS US cuts prison term of disgraced Enron CEO Skilling A US judge cut 10 years off the prison sentence of disgraced former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling on Friday after he spent years fighting his original 24-year jail term for fraud.
23 июня 2013
Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to jail for tax dodge An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced celebrated fashion house duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for avoiding taxes totalling 200 million euros ($268 million).
20 июня 2013
Argentina's ex-president Menem sentenced to 7 years Argentine ex-president Carlos Menem was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for organizing contraband arms shipments to Croatia and Ecuador during his tenure.
14 июня 2013
Outrage as Egypt court sentences 43 NGO workers A Cairo court sentenced 43 Egyptian and foreign NGO staff on Tuesday to jail terms of up to five years for working illegally, sparking outrage and raising fears for the future of civil society.
05 июня 2013

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