Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Sean Turnell: Suu Kyi’s Australian advisor is sentenced to three years in prison

Sean Turnell

Military officials have sentenced a former adviser to Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in prison. In February 2021, just days after Aung San Suu Kyi was taken into custody and her elected government was overthrown in a coup, Sean Turnell was jailed in Yangon. He was accused of violating the … Read more

Five people were sentenced in Hong Kong for writing “seditious” children’s books

Five people

Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of printing “seditious” children’s books and were sentenced to 19 months in prison apiece. Authorities understood the books, which are about sheep attempting to keep wolves out of their village, to be alluding to Beijing and Hong Kong. The volumes, according to the writers, “chronograph history … Read more

Nicki Minaj Husband Kenneth sentenced to one year of house arrest

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, is in trouble with the law. Petty was convicted of sex offenses and is a first-degree murderer. He has also been ordered to pay a USD 55,000 fine. Nicki Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, is known as the “Queen of Rap.” She is now in the news, … Read more

R. Kelly, an American pop musician, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for sexual crimes

R. Kelly

R. Kelly, an American R&B superstar, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting his young followers. Victims included minors, whom he harassed by misusing his superstardom. In a sex trafficking trial last year, a New York jury convicted the 55-year-old musician, actual name Robert Sylvester Kelly, guilty of all charges. Racketeering … Read more

6 Palestinians sentenced to extra 5 years for jail break

Palestinians

Six Palestinians were sentenced to an additional five years in prison on Sunday for escaping from a prison in northern Israel through a tunnel in 2021, according to Israeli media. The six, already serving life terms for anti-Israeli attacks, escaped on September 6 last year from Gilbao prison through a tunnel dug under a sink. … Read more

Footballer Santi Mina sentenced to four years in prison for sexual abuse

sexual abuse

After being found guilty of sexual abuse, Spanish player Santi Mina was sentenced to four years in jail on Wednesday. Celta Vigo’s 26-year-old forward has filed an appeal against his sentence. Mina was also absolved of a charge of sexual aggression, which is linked to intimidation or violence against the victim. Celta Vigo, who play … Read more

Boris Becker sent to prison for two years

Boris Becker

Boris Becker was sentenced to two years and six months in prison after being found guilty of bankruptcy offences. Dean Beale, the Chief Executive of the Insolvency Service, said: “The Court has handed down a prison sentence to Boris Becker today after he was convicted of offences relating to his bankruptcy.” “Boris Becker’s sentence clearly … Read more

Four men who sexually molested two young girls for seven years sentenced

Four men who sexually molested two young girls for seven years sentenced Four men have been indicted for sexually molesting two young ladies over a seven-year time frame. They committed the offenses somewhere in the range of 1996 and 2003. That’s when the casualties were matured somewhere in the range of seven and 15. The … Read more

Jury members urge ‘clemency’ for tortured Pakistani detainee at Guantanamo

Guantanamo

WASHINGTON: Seven senior US military officers who last week sentenced a Guantanamo Bay detainee to 26 years in prison issued an appeal for clemency in his case, calling his torture by the CIA a “stain” on America in a letter published on Sunday. In the first-ever public account of torture by someone detained in the wake of the … Read more