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Attacker convicted in 2024 antisemitic hate crime at DePaul sentenced to nearly two years in prison

The attack, which was premeditated, left one of the victims with a brain injury and his friend with a broken wrist that required surgery.

Max Long, one of the allegedly assaulted DePaul students, addresses the media outside Chicago's Cook County Circuit Court, wearing a yellow hostage pin and commemorative dog-tag necklace, April 2, 2025.
Mugshot of Shimon Levy, 40, of London, England.

Serial UK sex attacker jailed for life for double murder, rape after police failings

Solomon Madmon.

'I killed a person': TLV court sentences Solomon Madmon to life for murder of family member

Barkat Abu Issa, accused of of breaking into an apartment and raping a woman in Gedera, arrives for a court hearing at the court in Lod, on February 23, 2023.

Gedera rapist sentenced to 21 years for home invasion attack on mother


Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for George Floyd murder

In a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors from the Minnesota attorney general's office wrote that Chauvin's crime "shocked the conscience of the Nation."

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as a jury finds him guilty of all charges in his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 20, 2021 in a still image from video.

Australian court rejects appeal to jail killer of Israeli student for life

A Victorian prosecutor appealed the sentence handed down to the killer for the murder in March, saying that it was "manifestly inadequate."

Arab-Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe, who was murdered in Melbourne, Australia in 2019

Iranian political prisoner dies, allegedly from medical misconduct

"When you jail an innocent person for his beliefs and opposition, and he dies, this death is not an ordinary death; this is murder."

A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran's Evin prison June 13, 2006.

Turkish court issues 1,000-year jail sentences in Fenerbahce case

Former police chief Nazmi Ardic was sentenced to 2,170 years on charges including forging documents and conspiring against the soccer club.

Soccer Football - Super Lig - Besiktas v Fenerbahce - Vodafone Park, Istanbul, Turkey - March 21, 2021 Fenerbahce's Dimitris Pelkas reacts after being shown a yellow card by referee Halil Umut Meler

Israeli bakery in San Francisco is hiring formerly incarcerated staff

“His honesty impressed me,” Yosef said. “I could see in his face that if I give him a chance, he’ll do whatever he can to prove himself"

Freshly baked bread cools at a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon June 30, 2020.

Sheldon Silver, former NY Assembly speaker, ordered back to prison

Silver, 77, was furloughed under a measure meant to control the spread of coronavirus in prison.

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Gynecologist gets 18 months in prison after sexually assaulting patients

The court filing said Schechter used a vibrating device to rate the "pleasure levels" of three women on four separate occasions. One woman reported that he using his fingers as well.

A doctor examines a pregnant woman at a hospital in the province of Fayoum

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny reveals terrible treatment in prison

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny claimed that his health has greatly deteriorated and he was being prevented from seeing a doctor and sleeping by prison guards, a practice he likened to torture.

People participate in a demonstration after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in jail, in Moscow, Russia February 2, 2021.

Kremlin critic Navalny: I being held in a prison camp in Vladimir region

Navalny's precise location had been unknown after his legal team said last week that he had been moved from the nearby Kolchugino jail and that they had not been told where he was being taken.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally in Moscow, Russia, February 29, 2020.

Iran frees British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe - her lawyer says

"She was pardoned by Iran's Supreme Leader last year, but spent the last year of her term under house arrest with electronic shackles tied to her feet. Now they're cast off."

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her daughter Gabriella pose for a photo in London, Britain February 7, 2016. Picture taken February 7, 2016.