Prison sentence

South Korean court sentences ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee to jail for bribery by Unification Church

The court cleared Kim, the wife of ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted from office last year, of charges of stock price manipulation and violating the Political Funds Act.

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors at the Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea August 12, 2025.
The law courts in Tel Aviv

Prosecution indicts convicted sex offender for repeated violations of supervision order

District Court of Jerusalem

Two terrorists convicted of 2024 Jerusalem car ramming attack sentenced to 28 years in prison

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Prosecution backs acquittal of man in 1990 murder, cites rare, exceptional circumstances


Palestinian terrorists sentenced to life in prison for Elad ax attack

The indictment against the Palestinian terrorists had been amended following the 2023 passing of one of the injured victims. 

 Suspects for the Elad ax terrorist attack,  20-year-old Tzabahi Abu Shakir (Left) and 19 year-old Assad al-Rafai (Right).

Two men sentenced for planning to attack US electric substations

Their plan was to attack substations with powerful rifles, which they believed would result in millions of dollars in damages while causing civil unrest, but they never carried out any attacks.

 The FBI seal is seen at its headquarters before a news conference by Director Christopher Wray on the US Justice Department inspector general's report about the FBI's actions in the 2016 US election in Washington.

Russia attacks UN envoy for 'political bias' over jailed Putin critic

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sent a letter in which he condemned the 25-year prison sentence given to Vladimir Kara-Murza.

 Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice chairman of Open Russia, testifies before a Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on "Civil Society Perspectives on Russia" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2017

Soldier sentenced to 27 months in jail for leaking secrets, IDF intel

The soldier had been arrested and interrogated by the Shin Bet and the police, along with a variety of other civilians back in March and April 2022.

 IDF troops are seen operating across the West Bank as part of Operation Break the Wave on March 11, 2023

Israel jail crackdown sets up showdown with Palestinian prisoners

The looming showdown between the prisoners and Ben-Gvir comes days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on both sides to do everything to lower tensions.

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaking at the beginning of his Otzma Yehudit party's faction meeting.

A Jewish reporter goes inside Rikers for a new book on a notorious jail

One Jewish reporter went above and beyond to hear stories of those locked up on Riker's Island.

 View of a drill for prison guards at the Israeli Prison Authorities, Gilboa Prison, near Israel Valley. December 5, 2022.

Israel releases Arab-Israeli who killed soldier in 1983

‘We are ready to sacrifice more,’ says Karim Younis • Deri: Revoke his citizenship

 Longest serving Palestinian prisoner, Karim Younis, gestures as he is welcomed at his village, after he was freed from Israeli jail earlier today, in Ara, Israel January 5, 2023.

'The Serpent' serial killer Charles Sobhraj returns to France

The convicted serial killer has from Nepal where he has been serving in prison since 2003.

 French serial killer Charles Sobhraj leaves Kathmandu district court after his hearing in Kathmandu May 31, 2011.

Navalny from Russian prison: I was thrown in solitary confinement

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said that prison authorities had thrown him into a punishment cell for a minor rules infraction after he tried to encourage fellow inmates to form a trade union.

 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence, in Moscow, Russia May 17, 2022.

Brittney Griner's attorneys appeal Russian prison sentence

Under Russian law, the defense team had 10 days to do so after the sentencing. The grounds for the appeal were not immediately clear.

 US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants' cage during the reading of the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022.