An American was given 22 years in prison for participating in the storming of the Capitol: this is the longest sentence in this case.

On September 5, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for organizing a failed mutiny. The purpose of the riot was to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, according to APNews. Tarrio got the most...

Alexei Navalny sentenced to 19 years in special regime

The Moscow City Court (Russia) sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 19 years of special regime in the case of creating an extremist community and several other charges. The meeting was held in a strict regime colony in the Vladimir region, where the politician is already serving a nine-year…

Court overturns prison sentence for Briton who killed his seriously ill wife

A British citizen, 76-year-old David Hunter, helped his seriously ill wife to die. He was sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter. On July 31, the Cypriot court released him from custody due to the time already served, reports the Guardian. The 76-year-old former miner from…

Colombian in Russia sentenced to 5 years in prison for 'spreading fakes': he allegedly worked for an American company

Colombian citizen Alberto Enrique Giraldo Saraya was sentenced in Moscow to 5 years and 2 months in a penal colony in the case of sending fake messages about the Russian army, UkrInform reports. The Golovinsky Court of Moscow considered the case behind closed doors. According to…

Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison: how the politician's case developed, and what he was generally accused of

On April 11, 2022, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., a politician and publicist, was arrested. And on April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to 25 years in a strict regime colony, Voice of America reports. Vladimir Kara-Murza is a friend and colleague of the murdered in 2015…

Court in Russia sentenced Ukrainian to 16 years in prison: he allegedly collected secret data

In Russia, the Tula Regional Court found a Ukrainian citizen guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison in a strict regime colony, Radio Liberty reports. The court materials say that the person involved in the case, whose name is not disclosed, since January ...

USPS employee in Alabama stole mailed checks and sold them on the black market

On February 10, a federal judge sentenced a former US postal worker for theft, according to the US Department of Justice. U.S. District Court Judge Liles S. Burke sentenced 31-year-old Zachary Rashad Humphrey of Huntsville to 18 months in prison, followed by supervised release…

American man posed as a film producer for years and forced girls into prostitution

Dillon Jordan, aka Daniel Jordan, aka Daniel Maurice Hutton, aka Daniel Boler, was sentenced to five years in prison in connection with running prostitution at the national and international levels from 2010 to 2017. He gave himself away...

Iranian couple sentenced to 10 years in prison for street dancing

In Iran, a boy and a girl were sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after they posted a video of them dancing a romantic dance, Insider reports. Astijah Hagigi, 21, and her fiancé, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22, were convicted…

Huge fine and prison: two residents of Arizona severely punished for brawl on the plane

On Jan. 3, the U.S. District Court in Arizona sentenced a woman to 24 months probation for interfering with flight crew members, a Class C felony, on board an American Airlines aircraft in 2021, CNN reported. In addition to probation...

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