A nurse who set a Sydney nursing home on fire, killing 11 residents and wounding several others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, with the judge slamming the man’s actions as heinous and reprehensible. …read more
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A man who kidnapped and raped three women in Cleveland over a decade in his house is heading back to court where he’ll face a sentence up to life in prison plus 1,000 years. …read more
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A nurse has been sentenced to life in prison for setting fires that killed 11 residents at a nursing home in Australia. …read more
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A Michigan man has been sentenced to 165 years in prison for traveling to Haiti to sexually abuse children in a center for the poor he set up in the Caribbean country. …read more
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LAS VEGAS, July 31 (UPI) — Former football great O.J. Simpson will remain in a Nevada prison at least four more years, even though he was granted parole Wednesday. …read more
O.J. Simpson won a small victory Wednesday in his bid for freedom as Nevada granted him parole on some of his convictions in a 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery involving the holdup of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel room. …read more
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By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent
ASMARA, ERITREA (Worthy News)– Eritrean authorities are punishing 39 Christian high school students by subjecting them to beatings and hard labor, according to Open Doors.
Sources told Open Doors that after completing their mandatory four-month military training, the students were arrested for their “Christian beliefs and for their commitment to Christ” and are being held at the SAWA military training center; sources also report that Eritrean authorities are threatening them with long prison sentences should they fail to renounce Christ.
Since 2002, worship outside the government-sanctioned Sunni Muslim, Eritrean Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea has been forbidden; earlier this year, the government began a renewed crackdown on all Christians outside state-approved churches, according to Open Doors.
The architect of this religious repression is President Isaias Afewerki who has been in power since Eritrea's liberation in 1991. After a two-year border war with Ethiopia, Afewerki began cracking down on anything he perceived as a threat to Eritrea's national unity, wrote Elizabeth Kendal in the November 2012 Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin.
“He cancelled elections and closed all independent media. Opposition figures – politicians, activists and journalists – were removed, mostly to underground secret prisons for the 'disappeared.'”
According to Kendal, by the end of 2010, an estimated 3,000 Protestant Christians were incarcerated for their faith inside shipping containers at desert camps and in underground prison cells.
“The conditions are inhumane: Children and the elderly are amongst the prisoners sharing skin diseases, dysentery and other horrors in confined, unventilated spaces. Torture is routine … several Christians have died in custody, and others have perished in the desert trying to escape.”
Christians make up 47 percent of Eritrea’s population of 5.2 million, according to Operation World
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By Ruth Brown
A Saudi blogger has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for using his website to insult Islam. Believe it or not, that’s a lighter sentence than Raif Badawi, 35, might have received: he was originally arrested last year for apostasy (or abandoning religion), a crime that… …read more
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One day after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy but convicted of other charges that can still amount to 138 years in prison, civil liberties groups tell The Washington Post that it’s becoming increasingly likely that the U.S. will prosecute Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. …read more
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The Taliban have smuggled 25 militants they broke out of a prison in northwest Pakistan this week to one of the group’s strongholds in the country’s tribal region, two commanders said Wednesday. …read more
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Indonesian prosecutors sought prison terms of up to 12 years Wednesday for a dozen elite soldiers accused of storming a prison on the main island of Java and executing four detainees to avenge the murder of a fellow soldier. …read more
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Taliban commanders say they have managed to smuggle over two dozen militants they broke out of a prison in northwest Pakistan to one of the group’s strongholds in the country’s tribal regions. …read more
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By John Johnson
Bradley Manning’s acquittal today on the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, may not mean much in terms of his freedom—he could well spend the rest of his life in prison anyway. But that specific decision still has huge implications for the nation. A sample of pro… …read more
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Newly filed court papers seek an early prison release for an ailing, once-prominent civil rights lawyer convicted of terrorism charges for helping a blind Egyptian sheik relay messages from behind bars. …read more
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By Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
Bradley Manning may have been happy to hear in his court martial ruling Tuesday that he didn’t “aid the enemy” with his release of hundreds of thousands of classified files to WikiLeaks. But with his plea deal largely rejected and 136 years in prison still looming as a maximum sentence for the 19 other charges on which he was found guilty, any ideological victory may be cold comfort. …read more
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A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally beating a college student with a baseball bat because he thought the teen had laughed at him. …read more
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology never sought a federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy who was charged with stealing millions of academic papers from an online archive at MIT, according to a report by the institute.
Swartz committed suicide in January while facing federal charges including computer intrusion, wire fraud and data theft, which could have led to a sentence of 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The case has led to protests against what critics called an overly aggressive prosecution and calls by lawmakers to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder later said the government never intended for Swartz to serve more than a few months in prison.
The report, which was requested by MIT President Rafael Reif in January, was issued on Tuesday, the institute said in a press release. It cleared MIT of any wrongdoing but raised questions about whether the institute should have been more actively involved. The report was prepared after conversations with about 50 people, including faculty, students, alumni, staff, police officers and lawyers, and Swartz’s family and friends.
MIT remained neutral on Swartz’s case from the time of his arrest in January 2011 until his death in January 2013, never making public statements about the merits of the case or whether it should proceed, the report found. The institute didn’t request that federal agents get involved in the investigation or federal charges be brought against him. The institute didn’t try to influence the prosecutor’s decisions on the case, other than saying the government shouldn’t assume that MIT wanted Swartz to go to jail, it said.
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Victims of one of Italy’s largest World War II massacres were remembered on Monday after as a former SS captain, who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the attack, turned 100.
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Prison guards say they were totally overwhelmed when dozens of Taliban militants attacked their jail in northwest Pakistan, freeing over 250 prisoners. …read more
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