Belarusian Court Sentences Oppositionist
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But Mikhail Marynich says the computers had been handed over free of charge by the U.S. Embassy in Minsk to the Marynich-led Business Initiative Organization.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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The treason verdict of opposition leader Maia Topuria, now under appeal, is seen as a test of the ex-Soviet republic's efforts to improve its courts.
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A court in Uzbekistan sentences 23 people to up to 18 years in jail for their role in a series of atttacks.
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A Russian military court sentenced a soldier to four years in prison Tuesday for severely injuring a colleague in a case spotlighting persistent brutality in the Russian military.
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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, criticized in the West for his authoritarian tendencies, presented the public with a new memorial to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky at a ceremony in the ...
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The United States is accusing the Belarus government of "flagrant abuse" of its judicial system in the prosecution of opposition figure Mikhail Marinich.
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A Russian court sentenced four men to between 14 months and 2 1/2 years in prison after they confessed to being members of the banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, news agencies reported Thursday.
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Belarussian police beat and arrested dozens of protesters at rallies held in Minsk this week to challenge the results of a referendum allowing President Alexander Lukashenko to extend his rule, prompting two opposition parties on Thursday to call off
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PRAGUE- Ukrainian citizen Roman Tsyurak, 32, and his compatriot Vasil were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for the murder of a Belarussian worker, the Prague Supreme Court ruled in an ...
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A Belarus court sentenced a newspaper editor Friday to three years in prison for reprinting a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide riots when it was initially published in a Danish newspaper.
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November 28, 2004) Conditions have worsened considerably for the democratic opposition in Belarus, since last month s parliamentary elections when a national presidential referendum was adopted to remove any ...
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A Russian scientist convicted of spying for China was sentenced to 14 years in a high security jail Wednesday. Physicist Valentin Danilov was initially acquitted of selling
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KRASNOYARSK. Nov 24 (Interfax-Siberia) - The Krasnoyarsk territorial court on Wednesday sentenced physicist Valentin Danilov, who is accused of spying for China, to 14 years in a high-security prison.
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.
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The International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin to 32 years in prison.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state security forces.