TEHRAN, Dec 11_A court in Bahrain has sentence d eight anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down prison sentence s to several 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, Jun 3 - A Baghdad court Monday sentence d to death two more French nationals for belonging to the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows in Iraq.
TEHRAN, Mar 09 - Legal experts and politicians in the US say the light prison sentence handed to Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former election manager, highlights the country's prison inequality and a justice system that favors wealthy white people.
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, June 14 - Nearly three years after the gruesome discovery of 71 migrants suffocated in a lorry on an Austrian highway shocked Europe, a Hungarian court is due Thursday to hand down expected heavy sentence s for the traffickers.
TEHRAN, November 27 - A Kuwaiti court handed several lawmakers jail terms on Monday for forcing their way into the parliament building in 2011 - a move that could cause political turbulence in the (Persian) Gulf Arab region's most liberal state.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Amnesty International has denounced the recent prison sentence handed down to prominent human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab as “shameful and unfair.”
Iran has sentence d a 62-year-old man to a 10-year prison term on the charge of plotting against national security through acts of espionage, an Iranian judiciary official in the northeastern city of Mashhad says.