Category: Term

Lawyer: 25-year Term Sought for Russian Opposition Figure

April 9, 2023
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MOSCOW—A lawyer for jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. said Thursday that the prosecutor in Kara-Murza’s closed-door trial for treason and spreading false information about the Russian military in Ukraine has called for a sentence of 25 years in prison. Kara-Murza, a journalist and a prominent opponent of the Kremlin, has been behind bars…

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2 Men Get 220-Year Terms in Indianapolis for Killing 4

March 31, 2023
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INDIANAPOLIS—Two men convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal Indianapolis shootings of three young men and a young woman were both sentenced Friday to 220 years in prison. Cameron Banks and Desmond Banks were sentenced after being convicted in early March of four counts each of murder, felony murder and robbery resulting in…

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Serbia’s Incumbent President Vucic Set to Win Second Term

April 3, 2022
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BELGRADE—Serbia’s incumbent President Aleksandar Vucic is set to win the presidential vote on Sunday with 59.8 percent of the votes, according to a projection by pollsters Ipsos and CeSID, based on a sample of the partial polling station count. Zdravko Ponos, a retired army general representing the Alliance for Victory coalition, is set to come…

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Prosecutors Seek Life Term for Would-Be NYC Suicide Bomber

April 3, 2021
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NEW YORK—A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of ISIS terrorist group, prosecutors said Thursday. In papers filed in federal court in Manhattan,…

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Russia Rejects Western Criticism Over Navalny’s Prison Term

February 3, 2021
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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…

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