Businessman Babak Zanjani was convicted in 2016 of pocketing billions from Iran's oil ministry.
Clemency approved by country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
The son of a father and son team out of Stark County who conspired to defraud the government out of millions of dollars was sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
A mother and daughter from Mount Vernon, New York, have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to COVID relief fraud.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A hearing will be held Monday in Sedgwick County District Court on the appeals by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr of the death sentences they were given in a capital murder
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A Hamilton judge heard arguments Tuesday on how long Tommy Hoang’s former girlfriend should spend behind bars. She’s one of four people who pled guilty in Hoang’s brutal death and torturing. Madeline Peternel was convicted of manslaughter and while both the Crown and Defence agree she did not cause direct physical harm to Hoang, the […]
Toomaj Salehi was first detained in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death in Iran, which sparked nationwide protests in 2022. A death sentence has not been confirmed by Iranian officials
A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the death sentence issued against 33-year-old metal shop worker Toomaj Salehi, as even Iran’s state-run IRNA news […]
A man convicted of manslaughter charges in connection with the death of a
Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule, which ended in 1980 after a bloody bush war. The country’s name was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The presidential amnesty, the second in less than a year, benefits female, older and juvenile inmates, the terminally ill and some who were originally sentenced to...
A German billionaire who was officially declared dead in 2021, three years after vanishing in the Swiss Alps, may have faked his own death to live with his alleged mistress in Moscow.Karl-Erivan Haub, a German-U.S. dual citizen, was 58 at the time of his disappearance, and was former managing director German retail giant Tengelmann Group. He was last seen on the morning April 7, 2018, heading up a mountain lift, and was reported missing the following morning after he didn't return to his hotel...