TEHRAN, November 3 - Jailed Catalonia leader Santi Vila, among the nine Catalan leaders ordered to be held in custody on Thursday pending a potential trial over the region's independence drive, was free to leave jail after paying bail, a court document showed.
TEHRAN, October 30 -South Korean prosecutors are seeking a 10-year jail term for Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin after bringing corruption charges against him last year, a Lotte spokeswoman said.
TEHRAN, October 24 -Hong Kong’s highest court granted bail to two prominent young pro-democracy activists, Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, on Tuesday pending an appeal over their jail terms for unlawful assembly linked to the city’s mass pro-democracy protests in 2014.
TEHRAN, October 5 - There is one women-only jail in Honduras, house to 700 female prisoners. Children of the women can also live by their mothers in prison.
TEHRAN, October 1-Former American football star and actor O.J. Simpson has been released on parole after serving nine years in a Nevada jail , reports say.
TEHRAN, September 28 - A court in Bahrain has upheld 15-year jail terms handed down to seven citizens as the Manama regime presses ahead with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 28 - Israel’s military has reduced the sentence of a soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a severely wounded Palestinian, a decision denounced by Palestinian leaders as a “license to kill without any accountability.”
TEHRAN, July 29, YJC -Seven Turkish journalists of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet have been released after nine months in jail as calls increase on authorities to also free four other staffers of the daily who remain behind bars on accusations of abetting terrorism.
TEHRAN, June 9, YJC - The Bahraini regime has announced that it will follow the United Arab Emirates’ suit in jail ing anyone expressing sympathy for Qatar over sanctions imposed on the country by other Arab states of the Persian Gulf region.
TEHRAN, June 6, YJC -A Saudi Arabian tribunal has upheld a seven-year jail sentence handed down to a pro-democracy writer over his alleged association with foreign media outlets.
TEHRAN, March 29, YJC -A Bahraini court has handed down a jail sentence to a leader of the banned opposition al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and death and jail sentences to other anti-regime activists.
The son of actor Jackie Chan apologised to the public at a news conference on Saturday following his release from a six-month jail sentence for allowing people to use marijuana in his flat.
Bahraini protesters threw rocks and paint bombs through a fog of tear gas at police vehicles on Monday, in the latest clashes to erupt over the jail ing of a prominent opposition leader.
Israel has secretly detained a Pakistani claiming he is a suspected "al-Qaeda biological weapons expert" for more than three years, court documents disclosed on Monday, after the man appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to free him.