A criminal court on Thursday jailed for 15 years each a former Mubarak-era cabinet minister and a businessman for selling Israel natural gas below market value, a judicial source said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
A Tunisian who was jailed in March for seven years for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed on his Facebook page lost his appeal Monday, a court source said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Taiwan has sentenced a retired senior military intelligence officer to three years and six months in jail for leaking classified national secrets, a court said Wednesday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
A US judge sentenced an Afghan man to life in prison Tuesday for trafficking heroin to more than 20 countries and using the proceeds to fund and arm the Taliban. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (Reuters) - Speculation about Hosni Mubarak's health has riveted Egyptians since he was sent to jail to serve a life sentence, a reminder that his legacy still hangs over the Arab world's most populous nation days before a run-off ele... [Full Article]
A relative of notorious Australian serial killer Ivan Milat, who slaughtered seven backpackers in the 1990s, was Friday jailed for at least 30 years over the brutal "thrill kill" axe murder of a boy. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Nine ethnic Uighurs have been jailed in western China's restive Xinjiang region for inciting separatism and disturbing public order, the court and an exiled rights group said Wednesday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Israel will be able to jail illegal migrants without charge for up to three years, an official said on Sunday, as part of efforts to curb a major influx of Africans from across the Egyptian border. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Twenty-three years after China's sweeping crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, fewer than a dozen people remain in prison, among them elderly and likely mentally ill prisoners, a rights group said Thursday. (Source: Associ... [Full Article]