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An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced to life in prison a police officer over the 2019 murder of anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Nasiriyah was a center of anti-corruption protests that gripped Iraq in…

A German court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to over nine years in jail for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of Daesh. The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as…

Turkish authorities on Tuesday seized and jailed a 16-year-old youth for drawing a moustache on an election campaign poster showing re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, media reports said. Several media close to the opposition,…

Paris appeals court on Friday handed a 14-year jail term to a high-profile French terrorist convicted of terrorist offenses linked to Syria. The court upheld the sentence against Kevin Guiavarch handed down by a lower court but was more…

Three men who worked as security guards during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar remain in jail five months after the conclusion of the tournament over a dispute about their contracts. Shakir Ullah and Zafar Iqbal, both from Pakistan, and an…

Mohamed Awad and Ahmad Omar, two ​​members of an organized crime group who smuggled over 40 Syrian migrants into the UK, have been jailed. The defendants both pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration. Awad, aged 25, of London,…

The Tunisian Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party on Tuesday condemned the one-year prison sentence handed to its leader Rached Ghannouchi, calling it an “unjust political verdict.” Ghannouchi, a leading opponent of President Kais Saied, was…