Prison sentence
Doomsday preacher convicted of mass murder of 190 children, starvation deaths in Kenya cult case
The former taxi driver founded the Good News International Church in 2003, preaching increasingly apocalyptic sermons and urging his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
After botched execution attempt, death row inmate Christa Pike awakes 'angry and confused'
Urogynecologist convicted of raping nine women sentenced to 14 years imprisonment
Lloyds rejects mortgage bid from mother of jailed Palestine Action activist
Seagram's heiress gets six years for role in cult-like trafficking ring
Bronfman, 41, pleaded guilty in April 2019 to two felony counts in connection to her involvement with Albany-based NXIVM.
Man receives active prison sentence for abusing a dog, causing its death
"Anyone who harms an animal will eventually harm human beings, and the defendant's actions depict a brutality that's full of hatred towards dogs, human's best friend since the dawn of history."
Drunk driver who ran over 13-year-old gets 12 year prison sentence
Bar Zakai will also be banned from receiving a driver's license for 20 years and will need to pay compensation to Amsalem's family.
Iranian court confirms French-Iranian academic's 5-year sentence
Iran does not recognise dual nationality and has rejected France's calls to free the 60-year-old anthropologist detained since June 2019, saying the case is an Iranian domestic legal matter.
Convicted Israeli Nati Hadad returns to Israel to complete sentence
Hadad was arrested and imprisoned in Thailand in July 2017 for operating an illegal medical clinic and sentenced in 2018 to four years imprisonment.
Bernie Madoff's early release request rejected by federal judge
'When I sentenced Mr. Madoff in 2009, it was fully my intent that he live out the rest of his life in prison. Nothing has happened in the 11 years since to change my thinking.'
Jewish prisoners in Michigan to get certified kosher meals
The settlement of the lawsuit backed by the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union was reached over the weekend.
Israeli man gets life in prison for sodomy, murder, 21 years after grisly crime
In January, Nahmani was convicted of murder and sodomy but was acquitted of rape, 21 years after the crime and having been unidentified as the murderer during most of that period.
Malaysian citizen jailed for insulting Islam on social media
The sentence is believed to be the harshest such penalty on record in the Muslim-majority country, where concerns over racial and religious tensions have grown in recent months.
Disgraced former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger set for early release from prison
Metzger started serving his sentence in May 2017 following a plea bargain with the state prosecution.