Washington, D.C., May 9, 2024—Iranian authorities should immediately release economic journalist Shirin Saeedi from prison, drop all charges against her, and cease jailing members of the press for doing their jobs, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday. Saeedi entered pre-trial detention on December 23, 2023, on charges of “colluding and assembling against the national
Award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has fled to Europe just days after he was sentenced to prison, lashings and confiscation of property by the Islamic Republic. “I arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey,” Rasoulof said in a statement dated Sunday and shared with The Associated Press. His lawyer
Istanbul, May 9, 2024 — After an Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced five journalists for “aiding a terrorist organization without being a member” in connection to their work at the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgürlükçü Demokrasi (Liberal Democracy), the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Turkish authorities to not fight their appeals and end the judicial
The 40-year-old founder of biotech company Theranos, was convicted in January 2022 on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, and sentenced to 11 years behind bar
Davis played for the Celtics, Magic, and Clippers from 2007-15, winning a
In 2023, Iran barred Rasoulof from leaving the country to serve on the Festival’s Un Certain Regard jury.
Rasoulof is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is due to premiere at Cannes film festivalThe Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine and the confiscation of property, his lawyer has confirmed.Writing on X, Babak Paknia, a human rights lawyer representing Rasoulof, said that the judgment was confirmed in a court of appeal and the case had now been sent for enforcement. Continue reading
Glen "Big Baby" Davis was sentenced by a federal judge to 40 months in prison for his conviction in an alleged scheme to defraud the NBA's health care benefits plan.
Velasquez pleaded guilty May 16, 2023, to the federal charge of interstate threatening communication.
The filmmaker's latest feature 'The Seed Of The Sacred Fig' is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
BOSTON -- Glen Davis, better known as "Big Baby" during his basketball career, was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday for defrauding the NBA's healthcare plan. In addition to those 40 months, Davis also received three years of supervised release, Alex Prewitt reported on Thursday. Davis was first convicted in November of 2023, with over a dozen players accused of getting doctors and dentists to created fraudulent invoices that were submitted for reimbursement from the league's...
Goodman has already spent nine months in jail, leaving him with 18 to go in his 27-month sentence for blocking access to a scandal-plagued abortion center during a pro-life rescue in Washington, DC.