TEHRAN, Apr 23 -Myanmar’s top court has upheld seven-year jail sentences for two Reuters journalists who had been reporting the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by the country’s military and Buddhist mobs, despite a testimony by one police official that the two were set up.
TEHRAN, Mar 27 - A Lithuanian court has found the Soviet Union's last defense minister guilty of war crimes for his role in a violent crackdown on the Baltic country's independence move 28 years ago.
TEHRAN, Feb 28 - A Moscow court has rejected an appeal by a prominent U.S. foreign investment manager and ordered him to remain in jail for at least the next month-and-a-half in connection with an embezzlement probe.
TEHRAN, Feb 27 - A Bahraini court has upheld a one-year jail sentence against a female anti-regime activist and confirmed revocation of her citizenship.
TEHRAN, Jan 24 -The US government has released without charge Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi after 10 days of illegal detention, her family has announced.
TEHRAN, Jan 14- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is to remain in prison despite a ruling by the country's Supreme Court that upheld a lower court's decision that freed him on bail.
TEHRAN, December 31 -Bahrain's high court has upheld a five-year jail term against prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab despite calls from rights groups to release him.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Pakistan’s three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sent back to jail after a court convicted him in a fresh corruption case. Sharif has been sentenced to seven years behind the bars for failing to justify his family’s investments abroad.
TEHRAN, December 20 - Nine Catalan separatists, who have been jail ed awaiting trial for rebellion, have called for a “peaceful protest” during an upcoming cabinet meeting.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Courts in Bahrain have sentenced two anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down prison sentences to four others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, November 22 - The wife of a British academic sentenced to life in prison for espionage in the United Arab Emirates has condemned the U.K. government for putting diplomatic relations ahead of an innocent man's freedom.
TEHRAN, October 29 - A Bangladesh court sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, lawyers said, after she was jail ed for five years in a separate case in February.
TEHRAN, October 26 - Peru's most powerful conservative party vowed on Thursday to stop engaging in disputes with other political groups, a dramatic opposition shift that could help President Martin Vizcarra pass legislation.
TEHRAN, October 09 - The disputed jail house death of an opposition councilman arrested on allegations of plotting to kill President Nicolas Maduro has triggered alarm among many Venezuelans and swift condemnation from several foreign dignitaries.
TEHRAN, October 02 -A Chinese woman has been jail ed in the United States after pleading guilty to smuggling sensitive space and military communications technology back to China, the US Justice Department says.
TEHRAN, September 19 - A Turkish court has jail ed pending trial 24 people involved in protests over work conditions at Istanbul's new airport last week, broadcaster CNN Turk said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, September 03 -The new UN human rights chief has called on Myanmar to free two Reuters journalists jail ed for their reporting of the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, August 19 -Pakistan will bar jail ed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, convicted of corruption, and his daughter Maryam from traveling abroad, the government says.