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Criminology graduate student held in Idaho student murders

December 30, 2022 World Justice News 0

US police say they have arrested a criminology graduate in the mysterious killings of four university students in the state of Idaho over six weeks ago. Police named the suspect as Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28. […]

Brittney Griner: Basketball star jailed in Russia for nine years on drug charges

August 4, 2022 World Justice News 0

A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges. She was also ordered to pay a fine of one million roubles (£13,430; $16,300). Griner pleaded guilty […]

Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow politician gets 7 years for denouncing war

July 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

A Moscow councillor has been jailed for seven years for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine – in what is said to be the first full jail term under new laws targeting dissent. Alexei […]

Russia sentences US teacher to 14 years for cannabis smuggling

June 18, 2022 World Justice News 0

A Russian court has sentenced a former US diplomat to 14 years in prison for “large-scale” cannabis smuggling. Marc Fogel had previously worked at the US embassy in Moscow, but was employed as an English […]

Russia jails Norwegian Frode Berg for spying on submarines

April 16, 2019 World Justice News 0

A Moscow court has sentenced a 63-year-old Norwegian, Frode Berg, to 14 years in a strict-regime labour camp for spying on Russian navy submarines. Berg, arrested in Moscow in 2017, denied the accusation. He formerly […]

Human Rights Group Says Moscow Office Sealed

November 2, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Amnesty International says its Moscow branch staff arrived at work Wednesday morning to find their office sealed with a notice from municipal authorities warning people not to enter. The locks on the doors of its […]

EU Threat to Impose Sanctions on Those Responsible for Violating Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

October 17, 2016 zoshinuk 0

MOSCOW – The European Union threatened it would work under the jurisdiction of a United Nations (UN) resolution to impose sanctions on any side responsible for violating human rights and promoting violence in the Democratic […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]