Category: prison

Anthony Sowell, Ohio Man Who Killed 11 Women, Dies in Prison

CLEVELAND—An Ohio man sentenced to death for killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home has died in prison. Convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, 61, was receiving end-of-life care at Franklin Medical Center for a terminal illness when he died Monday, the Ohio Department of Corrections said. The death was not…


Russia Rejects Western Criticism Over Navalny’s Prison Term

MOSCOW—Russian authorities on Wednesday shrugged off the massive rallies against the jailing of top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and rejected Western criticism as “hysterics” as activists reported more than 1,400 new arrests in the crackdown on protesters. A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Navalny to prison for two years and eight months, finding that he violated…


China Insider: Chinese Suffer Starvation Under Draconian Lockdown

Suihua City of Heilongjiang Province is currently one of the six areas designated in China as “high-risk” for pandemic control. Heilongjiang is a northeastern province bordering Russia, and as China battles a resurgence of the CCP virus this winter, the people living there are being hit particularly hard.


UK Terror Watchdog to Review Terrorism in Prisons

The UK’s independent terrorism legislation watchdog is to start reviewing how to deal with terrorism in prisons. Jonathan Hall QC, appointed in May 2019 as an independent reviewer of the UK’s terrorism legislation, has so far submitted two annual reports to the government. He announced on Monday that the subject of terrorism in prisons in England…


Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Transferred to Maximum-Security Prison: Media Reports

Recently jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow was transferred to a maximum-security prison in the city on Dec. 31, according to local media reports. Chow, 24, earlier this year pleaded guilty to participating in and inciting others to take part in an “unlawful assembly” on June 2019. She was sentenced to 10 months in…