A court in Turkey has sentenced a brute who chopped off his ex-wife's fingers with an axe to 18 years behind bars. Photo shows Ilke Kuleli, undated photo. She was attacked by her ex-husband, Ismail Demirci, with an axe in Incirliova, Aydin, Turkey. (Newsflash) The court in Aydin sentenced Ismail…
A daughter has launched a campaign to free her dad who was initially jailed for 25 years for taking a single video on his mobile phone of an anti-government protest march in Cuba. Luis Frometa Compte, 59, has been in prison in Cuba since 2021 and although his sentence was…
An Iranian journalist who was arrested by the country’s security police has reportedly been chucked into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison without the medication he desperately needs. Hossein Ronaghi, a respected Iranian blogger, civil rights activist and open critic of the country’s oppressive political regime, was seized by police in front…
A reformist politician who called for 'structural changes' to Iran and slammed the regime's "costly and pro-Russian foreign policy driven by anti-Americanism" has been jailed for five years. Sayyid Mostafa Tajzadeh, 65, is an Iranian reformist politician as well as a senior figure of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and…
A 23-year-old man who had been wrongfully held in a Brazilian jail for a year when his flatmates were caught with marijuana plants has died on the same day he received a release permit to leave prison. Briner de Cesar Bitencourt was being held in the Palmas Penal Unit (UPP)…
