A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for inciting violence. Job Sikhala, an outspoken official with the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party and a former member of parliament, was given the suspended […]
A court in Moscow extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges last year, until March 30. The American journalist, the Wall Street Journal and the U.S. deny all the espionage charges. Friday’s ruling marks the fourth time Gershkovich’s pretrial detention has been extended since he […]
A court in Moscow extended the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges last year, until March 30. The American journalist, the Wall Street Journal and the U.S. deny all the espionage charges. Friday’s ruling marks the fourth time Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention has been extended since he […]
NEW LEXINGTON, Ohio (WCMH) – A central Ohio woman needs answers after she said her 16-year-old son was sexually abused under the care of a juvenile detention facility. The mother wished to remain anonymous to protect her son’s identity. Unidentified female remains found in ditch in Marion County “I’m disgusted. I never thought that this […]
Jan. 3—Muskogee County Sheriff’s Department reported an inmate escaped from the Muskogee County/City Detention Center on Wednesday. A news release from the sheriff’s office said Jason Wayne Stevens, 41, used “another inmate’s identifiers” to leave the facility. It also says Stevens was being held on “felony warrants including possession of a firearm after former felony […]
Jan. 1—An inmate at the Cass County Detention Center was caught shortly after escaping the facility on Sunday, according to a press release from Cass County Sheriff Ed Schroder. Cass County Corrections Officers notified Cass County Central Dispatch of an escaped inmate at 12:12 p.m. An investigation found a corrections officer was supervising an inmate […]
By Saleh Salem and Bassam Masoud GAZA (Reuters) – Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention. Sobhi Yaseen, his brothers Sady and Ibrahim, were among a group […]
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have been detained and taken to Israel for questioning have strongly criticized Israel’s procedures and interrogation methods. One resident of the Gaza Strip, who wanted to be identified only as Brahim, told dpa he had been tortured during the four weeks of his detention. When asked, the Israeli army […]
Dec. 19—State prosecutors in San Miguel County are requesting a Ribera man accused in a fatal shooting in Villanueva be held in jail until his trial. A pre-trial detention hearing is scheduled Thursday in the 2nd Judicial District Court for Gary Hicks, 59, who is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 12 slaying of […]
Human rights organizations have criticized Israel for targeting health facilities and emergency vehicles in its war against Hamas, but a video of a soldier stopping an ambulance at gunpoint is unrelated to the 2023 conflict. The clip spreading online was filmed in the occupied West Bank in 2019. “Israeli forces detain paramedics at gunpoint preventing them from […]