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SE Asia 6 years ago

Myanmar filmmaker jailed for one year after criticising military

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, an activist and founder of human rights film festivals, was detained in April following a Facebook post in which he slammed the 2008 military-drafted constitution.

SE Asia 6 years ago

Singaporean man who abused Myanmar maid gets longer jail term on appeal. His wife convicted of not paying worker

The couple were first convicted and sentenced in 2017 for abusing their Indonesian maid, Fitriyah, 34.

SE Asia 6 years ago

Woman gets 11 years' jail in one of Singapore's worst cases of maid abuse

The couple, who were previously convicted for abuse of another domestic worker in 2001, are appealing. The prosecution had called this one of the worst cases of maid abuse in Singapore.

Sports 6 years ago

Argentine ex-boxing champ jailed for child sexual abuse

The 48-year-old, who was World Boxing Council champion for 10 months in 2006, was arrested in 2016 following allegations that he had abused the girl over two years, starting when she was just seven in 2012.

World 6 years ago

US woman gets 25 years for killing daughter to 'remove demons'

Angela Phakhin had been convicted in June of the first-degree murder of Maiya and the sentence was pronounced last Friday, the district attorney's office in Sacramento said.

World 6 years ago

Australian IS supporters jailed for Shiite mosque arson

The men -- Ahmed Mohamed, 26, Abdullah Chaarani, 28 and Hatim Moukhaiber, 31 -- torched the Imam Ali Islamic Centre in December 2016 in the middle of the night before spray painting "The Islamic State" on one of the building's walls.

World 6 years ago

China activist arrested for 'promoting terrorism'

Zhang Baocheng, 60, was a member of the now-defunct New Citizens Movement, which campaigned for democracy and government transparency.

World 6 years ago

Ex-UN official jailed for child abuse in Nepal

Peter John Dalglish, 62, from Canada, a formerly high-profile humanitarian worker, was sentenced on Monday to two terms of nine and six years in two cases after being convicted last month.

World 6 years ago

French mother faces 20 years in jail for murdering 5 of her children

Horning, the mother of three adult children, is thought to have hidden her pregnancies even from her partner, giving birth in secret and then strangling the newborns at her house in Wittelsheim in eastern France.

National 6 years ago

Ahmad Dhani gets one year jail sentence for calling political rivals idiots

Earlier, the former Dewa band lead singer was convicted under the same law by the South Jakarta District Court in January for tweeting that supporters of former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama should be spat on.

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jailed

Myanmar filmmaker jailed for one year after criticising military

Singaporean man who abused Myanmar maid gets longer jail term on appeal. His wife convicted of not paying worker

Woman gets 11 years' jail in one of Singapore's worst cases of maid abuse

Argentine ex-boxing champ jailed for child sexual abuse

US woman gets 25 years for killing daughter to 'remove demons'

Australian IS supporters jailed for Shiite mosque arson

China activist arrested for 'promoting terrorism'

Ex-UN official jailed for child abuse in Nepal

French mother faces 20 years in jail for murdering 5 of her children

Ahmad Dhani gets one year jail sentence for calling political rivals idiots

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