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Belarusian opposition leader calls for release of political prisoners in Belarus amid crackdown by Lukashenko. Ongoing human rights violations underscore n...

Peter Cherif, a suspected French jihadist who was close to the perpetrators of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison. Cherif fought for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen from 2011 to 2018, during which time he was suspected of training…

Prosecutors said the man made more than 100 threatening phone calls to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office, plus 150 more to the FBI tip line.

The Top Court directed that the "caste" column and any references to caste in undertrial and/or convicts' prisoners' registers inside the prisons shall be deleted. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Supreme Court has struck down the provisions of state prison manuals that faciliated allotment of work to prisoners on the basis of their castes and classified denotified tribes as habitual offenders. Calling these practices “unconstitutional”, the court also laid down guidelines to prevent caste-based discrimination in prisons, Livelaw reported. 

A former Singaporean cabinet minister has been sentenced to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts, in a rare criminal case involving a minister in the Asian financial hub

A Montana man has been convicted of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

Former deputy Benny Caluya started his law enforcement career in 1979 and faces 10 years in prison if convicted

The indictment charges 68 defendants, some of whom could face life in prison if found guilty