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Navalny is sentenced to 19 years for ‘extremism’ as Kremlin crushes dissent
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of “extremism” charges on Friday following closed prison court proceedings and sentenced to 19 years in a “special regime” prison colony, on top of existing sentences of more than 11 years, all in cases widely viewed as trumped up for political retribution.But the extreme nature of the
On This Day, March 6: 5 sentenced to death for assassination of Egypt’s Anwar Sadat
1/5 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and U.S. President Jimmy Carter confer in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington prior to the peace treaty signing on March 26, 1979. On March 6, 1982, an Egyptian court sentenced five Muslim fundamentalists to death for the assassination of Sadat. UPI File Photo | License Photo…
Gary Bowser sentenced to over three years in prison over Switch hacks
Team Xecuter's actions are estimated to have generated over $65 million in losses to game companies Leader of hacking group Team Xecuter, Gary Bowser, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison.The sentence covers two federal felonies, U.S. Attorney Nick Brown announced: Conspiracy to Circumvent Technological Measures and to Traffic in Circumvention Devices, and Trafficking…
Siberian Teen Sentenced to Prison for Plotting to Blow Up Minecraft Version of FSB Building
Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images)Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia. Nikita Uvarov, who is 16 years old, was recently found guilty of “training for terrorist activities” by a Russian military court, after the teen plotted to…
Bowser sentenced to 3 years in jail for Nintendo Switch pirating
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! A U.S. court has sentenced Gary W. Bowser, the leader of the Team Xecutor hacking group, to 40 months in jail. Bowser was arrested in 2020 for selling hacking software that allowed users to play pirated Switch…
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four more years in prison
Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty over walkie talkie charges. Video / Al JazeeraA court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison today after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said.Suu Kyi was convicted last month on…
A South Carolina woman has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for stabbing two of her neighbors to death.According to prosecutors Paulette Sims, 31, was still stabbing and sticking her finger into the wounds of one of her victims when police arrived and captured it on body camera footage. WYFF reports the shocking crime…
In plea deal, shooter to be sentenced to life for fatal Poway synagogue attack
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 22-year-old former nursing student will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for bursting into a synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019 with a semiautomatic rifle to kill one worshipper and injure three others. An agreement with prosecutors that spares John T.…