Jimmy Sham, a prominent figure in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy and LGBTQ+ movements, was released from prison on Friday after spending more than four years behind bars in the city’s largest national security case to date, prosecuted under a law imposed by Beijing.Sham gained national attention during the 2019 anti-government protests, when he served as convenor […]
PARIS: A French street artist who had been sentenced to three years in prison in Azerbaijan for painting a graffiti in the metro has been pardoned and freed, French authorities said Tuesday. Theo Clerc has returned to France following 422 days in detention after he was pardoned by Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, France’s Foreign Minister […]
Tommy Robinson after being released from jail (Photo: X) British TV channels interrupted their regular broadcast on Tuesday morning after Tommy Robinson was released from prison four months early.Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months for contempt of court after repeatedly breaching a 2021 injunction. The injunction had been granted […]
UK court frees singer Chris Brown freed on $6.7 million bail in assault case (Photo: AP) Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was released on 5 million-pound ($6.7 million) bail Wednesday while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. The decision by a London judge […]
Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was released from custody Friday night following his arrest while protesting at a private Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility that is expected to play a key role in Trump’s plans for mass deportations.Three Democratic House members were also at the protest but were not arrested. […]
American ballerinaKsenia Karelina, who was held in a Russian prison for over a year on treason charges, met President Donald Trump following her return to the United States. Her case drew widespread condemnation from human rights groups and US officials, who labelled the charges “absolutely ludicrous.”Karelina, a 32-year-old dual US-Russian citizen, was arrested in Yekaterinburg […]
A Columbia University student, Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested by masked immigration agents after a naturalisation interview in Vermont, has been freed from detention while his case continues. On Wednesday, US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford stated that Mahdawi’s two-week detention “so far demonstrates great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime.”Mahdawi’s […]
American Faye Dail Hall, center, is pictured with diplomat Mirdef Alqashouti, of the Qatar Embassy in Afghanistan after Dail was released Thursday. (Pic credit: AP) The Taliban has released an American citizen, Faye Hall, who was detained earlier this year alongside two British nationals and their Afghan interpreter, according to former US envoy to Kabul […]
In this undated handout photo released by the Qatar ministry of foreign affairs, American Faye Dail Hall, center, is pictured with diplomat Mirdef Alqashouti, of the Qatar Embassy in Afghanistan after Dail was released Thursday. (Pic credit: AP) An American woman recently released from Taliban custody in Afghanistan expressed gratitude to US President Donald Trump […]
Luis Har, a 72-year-old Israeli grandfather, recounted his 129-day ordeal under Hamas. He described how he was forced to cook for his captors while surviving on barely any food himself.Har, who was taken from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on 7 October 2023, recalled being held at gunpoint in a small apartment in Gaza alongside four other […]
