A brute who allegedly blasted his wife with a gun before stuffing her body in a closet while their four children were at home has been charged with murder. Mohammad Alkurdi, 38, poses in undated photo. He was arrested after he allegedly shot and killed his wife in their bedroom…
The Tehran Court of Appeal has upheld a 16-year-jail term for two students where the only evidence against them was a confession under torture to the crime of wanting a free and democratic government. Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, were forced to…
A thief accused of stealing a diamond-studded 17th-century treasure worth over EUR 110 million has made a surprise courtroom confession. The gang member - one of six on trial in Germany - has admitted that he was involved in planning the theft of the jewellery, studded with 4,300 diamonds. The…
The Russian man who confessed to raping and murdering an American woman who he met after she had breast enlargement surgery says he was tortured into confessing by Russian cops. The man suspected of the murder of American student Catherine Serou denies any involvement in the crime and now says…
Three Russian cops who electrocuted a woman to get a false confession have been jailed for 11 years. Marina Ruzaeva, 40, was violently attacked by police officers Stanislav Golchenko, Denis Samoilov and Alexander Korbut in the town of Usolye-Sibirskoye in the Russian region of Irkutsk Oblast on 2nd January 2016.…