Former US naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life in the US for spying for Israel in 1987, has been released. He was serving his sentence at the Butner Prison, North Carolina. In total, Pollard spent ...
US President Barack Obama says he has not abandoned his plan to close the special prison for terrorism suspects located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 107 people are being held there, many of them have been in prison for over ten years. Speaking on Thursday ...
Israeli officials expect Jonathan Pollard, convicted in the United States in 1987 for spying for Israel, to be released soon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the US to allow Pollard to return to Israel and not stay for five ...
High-ranking Russian and Ukrainian officials have come under sanctions from the United States of America following the annexation of Crimea, including the head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, and the former chief of staff of the Ukrainian president, Viktor Medvedchuk. Several dozen civil servants from Russia were banned from entering the territory ...
The Seattle Federal Prosecutor's Office told the court that the Russian Roman Seleznev, accused of stealing the details of several million American credit cards, and his father, State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Valery Seleznev, discussed in telephone conversations plans to put pressure on a potential witness and, possibly, even escape ...
At the end of October, the American authorities will release six thousand people serving various sentences within three days. This amnesty will be the largest in US history. The authorities had been planning the amnesty for more than a year, and its terms were even shifted so that the government could ...
The former owner of a Georgia peanut company was sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was found guilty of an outbreak of salmonellosis that killed nine people and sickened hundreds. Reported by Reuters. Stewart Parnell, 61, who ...
The United States strongly condemns yesterday's verdict by a Russian military court on well-known Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and activist Alexander Kolchenko on baseless charges of terrorist attacks and other subversive activities in occupied Crimea. This is stated in a statement by the US State Department. In a statement ...
Russian hockey player Vyacheslav Voinov, who was serving a sentence in an American prison for domestic violence, was released early. In total, the Los Angeles Kings defender spent 45 days in custody out of the 90 days appointed by the court. According to American media reports, Voynov served his sentence in a special...
In Texas, Justice of the Peace Randall Rogers issued an unusual sentence to local resident Josten Bundy. Josten got into a fight with ex-lover of his girlfriend Elizabeth Janes. The judge gave Josten a choice between jail and marriage. He must either go to jail for fifteen days, or ...