Prison sentence

Iranian woman sentenced to three years in prison for comment on Netanyahu social media post

Iranian human rights groups say Azar Yahu was jailed after reacting to posts by Netanyahu and Trump, with authorities accusing her of acting against national security.

A billboard depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with text in Persian reading "Hitanyahu" and text in Hebrew reading "Germany's Nazi of today" at Palestine Square in central Tehran on August 11, 2025.
A bailiff puts handcuffs on Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg, sentenced to 11 years in prison over his criticism of Moscow's offensive in Ukraine at a city court in Pskov, northwestern Russia on August 17, 2026.

Russian opposition politician sentenced to 11 years for condemning Ukraine war

Max Long, one of the allegedly assaulted DePaul students.

Attacker convicted in 2024 antisemitic hate crime at DePaul sentenced to nearly two years in prison

Mugshot of Shimon Levy, 40, of London, England.

Serial UK sex attacker jailed for life for double murder, rape after police failings


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.