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Trial became punishment’: HC frees 50-year-old in 2009 opium case 

October 13, 2025 10:04 pm

Justice Sumeet Goel reduces four-year sentence to time served, invoking reformative approach.

Dozens sentenced to life in prison in mass trial in UAE: Activists

July 10, 2024 8:28 pm

The UAE did not immediately acknowledge the sentences. However, they had been expected to be issued in court Wednesday, activists said.

US soldier goes on trial in Russia for threatening to kill girlfriend

June 06, 2024 5:24 pm

The United States warns its citizens against travel to Russia, citing reasons including "the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials". Russia has said Black's case has no political element.

Greek judge dismisses case against 9 Egyptians accused of causing a deadly shipwreck

May 21, 2024 6:40 pm

The decision by Presiding Judge Eftichia Kontaratou came shortly after the trial opened in the southern Greek city of Kalamata, and was greeted with cheers and applause from supporters of the defendants at the courthouse.

9 Egyptians go on trial in Greece over deadly shipwreck, as rights groups question process

May 21, 2024 12:27 pm

More than 500 people are believed to have gone down with the fishing trawler, which had been travelling from Libya to Italy. Following the sinking, 104 people were rescued — mostly migrants from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt — and 82 bodies were recovered.

Trump lawyer grills Stormy Daniels, says she sought to profit off story of sex

May 09, 2024 11:05 pm

Defense lawyer Susan Necheles showed jurors two statements Daniels signed in 2018 denying she had an affair with Trump.

Self-exiled Chinese businessman's chief of staff pleads guilty weeks before trial

May 03, 2024 11:34 pm

At a sentencing scheduled for September 10, Wang faces up to 10 years in prison. Without the plea, she could have faced life in prison if she was convicted.

Dabholkar murder trial: Polygraph tests pointed to role of Sanatan Sanstha members, says CBI officer

April 19, 2023 3:35 am

SR Singh also told the court that he had questioned psychiatrist and Sanatan Sanstha founder Dr Jayant Balaji Athawale in February 2016 in connection to the murder probe, but nothing incriminating came to light.

Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction is upheld by New York court

June 02, 2022 10:03 pm

Since last summer, Harvey Weinstein, 70, has been awaiting trial in Los Angeles, where he has been charged with several counts of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, as well as other counts related to sex crimes

Detained Australian Yang Hengjun set to face trial in Beijing

October 10, 2020 11:03 am

The 55-year-old blogger, who was detained by Chinese authorities in January 2019 at Guangzhou Airport after arriving from New York will be facing trial on an espionage charge.

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