Sentences

A senior lawyer who represented a jailed journalist in a prominent case has been sentenced to seven years in prison in Russia for criticizing Moscow's military operations in Ukraine on social media.

French prosecutors have called for sentences of up to 14 years for several remaining co-defendants of a man accused of recruiting numerous strangers to sexually assault his wife while she was drugged and unconscious.

A Russian court has sentenced a 72-year-old American citizen, accused of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine, to nearly seven years in prison.