ANKARA: A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 22 ex-servicemen to life in prison for their role in a failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a lawyer told AFP. ۔ The latest large-scale trial of the suspects, who failed to oust Erdogan, was followed by a massive political crackdown and arrests, an Ankara court
ANKARA: A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 32 ex-servicemen to life in prison in a large-scale trial involving nearly 500 military defendants in 2016 in a failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One of the last ordeals to emerge from a bloody night in which Erdogan turned …
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has sentenced four people to life in prison for a 2016 suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul that killed 12 German tourists and charged Islamic State group jihadists. The blast occurred in January 2016 in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahit Square – one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions, near the
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has sentenced four people to life in prison for a 2016 suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul that killed 12 German tourists and charged Islamic State group jihadists. The blast occurred in January 2016 at Istanbul’s historic Sultanahit Square – one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions, near the
MINSK: A Belarussian court on Thursday sentenced a couple of television journalists to two years in prison for covering last year’s protests, a lengthy jail term for legal action against independent news media. Is punished. Standing in a cage, Katrina Bakhalova, 27, and Daria Klasova, 23, flashed V for victory signs as they smiled and
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Thursday sentenced 50 opposition activists to 10 years in prison for attacking the incumbent prime minister’s motor card nearly two decades ago. Defendants included a former member of parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was in power at the time of the attack. The prosecution said that in
MOSCOW: A civil monitoring group detained more than 1,400 protesters during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny by Russia’s caretaker government on Wednesday, citing the Kremlin’s most prominent critic amid international condemnation. After being sentenced to almost three years in prison. The court’s decision on Tuesday to commute the suspended 2014 sentence to real
MOSCOW: A civil monitoring group detained more than 1,400 protesters during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny by Russia’s caretaker government on Wednesday, citing the Kremlin’s most prominent critic amid international condemnation. After being sentenced to almost three years in prison. The court’s decision on Tuesday to commute the suspended 2014 sentence to real
Colombo: A prominent Sri Lankan opposition politician was on Tuesday jailed for four years for making statements accusing the South Asian majority of judges of corruption. Before voting in 2019, United National Party Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramana Naik claimed that he was being targeted for speaking out against corruption. A 57-year-old boy was sentenced by
BEIJING: A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed 17 people for smuggling گل 28 million worth of penguin scales. The Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern city of Wenzhou said the group was convicted of importing 23 tons of scales from Nigeria between 2018 and 2019 from the world’s most smuggled breasts worth 180 million yuan
