Sentences

Today, Russia has sentenced four journalists, allegedly linked to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, to five and a half years in a penal colony, amplifying the ongoing crackdown on press freedom and critics of the Kremlin.

President-elect Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of nearly all American federal prisoners on death row.

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.