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Issued on: 20/03/2021 - 16:32 A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation. The woman was attacked in September last year in front of her small ...

Europe10:48 GMT 04.03.2021(updated 11:29 GMT 04.03.2021) Get short URLhttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e5/03/04/1082253530_0:242:2881:1862_1200x675_80_0_0_956c3c0b9d79e1a5554f3291e57fe5f4.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngSofia Chegodaeva. Sputnik Internationalhttps://sputniknews.com/europe/202103041082253295-ex-french-defence-minister-leotard-given-two-year-suspended-sentence-in-corruption-trial/Along with the former French prime minister Edouard Balladur, Leotard is accused of involvement in the payment of kickbacks totalling 2 million euros relating to the sale of French submarines to Pakistan.The former French Defence Minister Francois Leotard ...

Issued on: 02/02/2021 - 18:40 Prosecutors in the corruption trial for former French prime minister Edouard Balladur on Tuesday called for him to be sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term. They said the 91-year old, tried on charges he used kickbacks from 1990s arms deals to help finance ...

A Pakistani court on Thursday gave Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, held responsible by India for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and two close aides prison sentences totalling ten-and-a-half years in two cases of terror financing -- a decision likely influenced by the pressure brought to bear on Islamabad ...

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s top court Monday agreed to hear arguments that a death sentence should be reinstated on the British national accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after a lower court overturned his conviction earlier this year.The Supreme Court ordered that Omar Sheikh ...

A local court on Saturday awarded seven year sentence to a man for raping a woman on the pretext of marriage in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. Additional session judge Udhampur, S R Gandhi pronounced the judgment after hearing the additional public prosecutor Anil ...

The anti-terror court found that the men set the building ablaze because of a non-payment of extortion money. Pakistan's deadliest industrial fire, which killed over 260 factory workers in 2012, was a case of arson and not an accident, a court ruled on Tuesday, as it sentenced ...

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by a woman against a seven-year jail term imposed on her after she was caught trying to smuggle almost €2m worth of heroin through Dublin Airport. Lawyers for Samina Sajjad, (52) a retired postmistress with an address in Middlesborough, England, but ...

Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, who presided over al-Timimi’s 2005 trial in federal court in Alexandria, ruled last month that al-Timimi could be released after a 14-day quarantine because he has a strong chance of seeing his sentence shortened on appeal and a high risk of complications if infected by ...

NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Monday handed down a symbolic sentence — a fine of about 1 cent — to a prominent lawyer who posted tweets critical of the court and its chief justice. The case against the lawyer, Prashant Bhushan, effectively put India’s highest court on ...