In the weeks before his death in a Moscow prison, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky drafted a series of handwritten letters and petitions describing his transfer through a succession of crowded jail cells, some reeking of sewage, others cold and damp, each mo
ANKARA - Turkey has again defended its treatment of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan saying it has invited a European anti-torture group to visit his new prison cell, the foreign ministry said. Ocalan, 61, is the founder of the outlawed Kurdis
PERUGIA, Italy - American Amanda Knox was found guilty early Saturday of murdering and sexually assaulting her British housemate Meredith Kercher in 2007 and sent to prison for 26 years. Knox's then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito was
PERUGIA, Italy - American Amanda Knox was found guilty early Saturday of murdering and sexually assaulting her British housemate Meredith Kercher in 2007 and sent to prison for 26 years. Knox's then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito was
THE HAGUE - Two Nigerians accused of using voodoo curses to force about 140 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Europe were sentenced to jail terms of four and and four-and-a-half years. Four other defendants received terms of one or two years whil
KIGALI - A former presidential financial director in Rwanda was fined 1.8 million dollars and jailed for four years for illegal enrichment as Kigali cracks down on corruption, state radio said Saturday. A court in the capital trying Janvier Murenzi
CAIRO - Iran brought new espionage charges against an Iranian-American scholar who was already convicted of spying and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the country's crackdown following June's disputed presidential election, a human rights group s
MANCHESTER - A policeman was jailed for at least 18 years on Monday for the brutal murder of his fiancee, also a police officer, days before their wedding. Martin Forshaw, 27, initially tried to pretend that 31-year-old Claire Howarth had died in
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