Recruiting convicts for its army has given Russia a manpower advantage. But it is backfiring in tragic ways when former inmates are pardoned and return home to commit new crimes. By Neil ...
Controversial Leniency in Sentencing A particularly shocking case involved a former Wagner Group mercenary who was merely fined 5,000 rubles after he mutilated his ex-wife in front of their child ...
Wagner Group members have been wreaking havoc across Russia ever since Vladimir Putin started releasing convicts to strengthen his military presence in Ukraine, a new report has shown. The ...
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Roman Protasevich, a dissident blogger arrested in 2021 after Belarusian authorities forced his flight to divert from its route and land in Minsk, was pardoned on Monday, Belarusian state news ...
Former Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby is seeking a presidential pardon as she faces decades behind bars for perjury and mortgage fraud. The ex-prosecutor, 44, insisted to MSNBC's Joy Reid that she ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of ...
A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of the attack, ...
The trial of a former economy minister, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, has gripped Kazakhstan, sparking conversations about domestic abuse. A brutal CCTV footage, played in the court, shows him dragging his ...
Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the Indivisible Project, a liberal grass-roots network, said in a statement on Friday that President Biden should have placed tougher conditions on aid to Israel ...
Viktor Savvinov had already been imprisoned several times for various crimes — including robbery, auto theft and assault — when he murdered a female drinking companion during a quarrel in 2020 ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and ...