Topic: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian appeal court has reduced to five years the jail sentence for an Iranian-American scholar detained after last year's disputed election and accused of espionage, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday. In October, official media said Kian Tajbakhsh was sentenced to more than 12 years in jail. "The appeal court sentenced my client ... to five ...
A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said. A court in southern China's boomtown city of Shenzhen found Xue Mingkai guilty of subversion of state ...
A Myanmar court ordered a U.S. citizen Wednesday to serve three years in prison for entering the military-ruled country with forged documents and undeclared foreign currency. Nyi Nyi Aung, who was born in Myanmar and has campaigned for democracy in the country from abroad, faced a ...
