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Man Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.
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2 Belgian Teens Found With 5,000 Ants Given $7,700 Fine Or Year In Jail
Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in prison - the minimum penalty for the offense - for violating wildlife conservation laws.
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US Woman Finds Texts From Other Women On Partner's Phone, Shoots Him Dead
A US woman will serve 35 years in prison, including 25 years for second-degree murder and 10 years for armed criminal action after she shot her boyfriend dead when he was asleep.
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UK Woman Who Raped And Abused Children Found Dead In Prison
Rebecca Holloway, 31 was found dead at the HM Prison Low Newton in Durham, where she was serving a 12-and-a-half-year sentence.
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ED Uncovers Rs. 600 Crore Crypto Fraud, Seizes Rs. 2.18 Crore in Search Operations
The probe was initiated following a newspaper report highlighting the case of Chirag Tomar, an Indian national currently serving a prison sentence in the US for defrauding over $20 million (roughly Rs. 174 crore) from hundreds of victims.
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Why Sweden Is Sending Its Inmates To Prisons Abroad
The Swedish government said Wednesday that it was examining the possibility of sending some inmates to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, anticipating heavy pressure on its own prisons in the coming years.
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Hundreds Of January 6 Capitol Rioters Freed From Jail After Trump Order
Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,500 people.
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US Man Guilty Of Killing 3, Mutilating, Eating Victim's Heart For "Ritualistic Sacrifice"
Jason Thornburg was found guilty by a Tarrant County jury, who will now decide whether he should face the death penalty or serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Odisha's Top Maoist Leader Wants To Pursue MA From Jail
Top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, currently in Odisha's Berhampur circle jail serving a life sentence, expressed his interest in pursuing MA in Public Administration through the Odisha State Open University (OSOU) this year, a prison official said.
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Gangster Serving Life Sentence In Uttarakhand Jail Initiated Into Monkhood
An underworld don serving life sentence in the Almora district jail was offered 'diksha' by seers in the prison premises recently to initiate him into monkhood, claimed a man who mediated between the don and the seers.
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A US Prisoner Briefly Died, Later Argued He's Served His Life Sentence
After the incident, the prisoner asked the three-judge panel to let him get on with his life.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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Chinese Citizen Journalist Arrested For Reporting On Covid Released After 4 Years
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for her coverage of Beijing's COVID-19 response, according to a video released by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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US Seeks 3 Years Prison for Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao
US prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering.
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Man Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.
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2 Belgian Teens Found With 5,000 Ants Given $7,700 Fine Or Year In Jail
Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in prison - the minimum penalty for the offense - for violating wildlife conservation laws.
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US Woman Finds Texts From Other Women On Partner's Phone, Shoots Him Dead
A US woman will serve 35 years in prison, including 25 years for second-degree murder and 10 years for armed criminal action after she shot her boyfriend dead when he was asleep.
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UK Woman Who Raped And Abused Children Found Dead In Prison
Rebecca Holloway, 31 was found dead at the HM Prison Low Newton in Durham, where she was serving a 12-and-a-half-year sentence.
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ED Uncovers Rs. 600 Crore Crypto Fraud, Seizes Rs. 2.18 Crore in Search Operations
The probe was initiated following a newspaper report highlighting the case of Chirag Tomar, an Indian national currently serving a prison sentence in the US for defrauding over $20 million (roughly Rs. 174 crore) from hundreds of victims.
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Why Sweden Is Sending Its Inmates To Prisons Abroad
The Swedish government said Wednesday that it was examining the possibility of sending some inmates to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, anticipating heavy pressure on its own prisons in the coming years.
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Hundreds Of January 6 Capitol Rioters Freed From Jail After Trump Order
Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,500 people.
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US Man Guilty Of Killing 3, Mutilating, Eating Victim's Heart For "Ritualistic Sacrifice"
Jason Thornburg was found guilty by a Tarrant County jury, who will now decide whether he should face the death penalty or serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Odisha's Top Maoist Leader Wants To Pursue MA From Jail
Top Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, currently in Odisha's Berhampur circle jail serving a life sentence, expressed his interest in pursuing MA in Public Administration through the Odisha State Open University (OSOU) this year, a prison official said.
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Gangster Serving Life Sentence In Uttarakhand Jail Initiated Into Monkhood
An underworld don serving life sentence in the Almora district jail was offered 'diksha' by seers in the prison premises recently to initiate him into monkhood, claimed a man who mediated between the don and the seers.
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A US Prisoner Briefly Died, Later Argued He's Served His Life Sentence
After the incident, the prisoner asked the three-judge panel to let him get on with his life.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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Chinese Citizen Journalist Arrested For Reporting On Covid Released After 4 Years
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for her coverage of Beijing's COVID-19 response, according to a video released by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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US Seeks 3 Years Prison for Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao
US prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering.
