Tag: Jailed

Florida man sentenced to 15 years in prison for vandalising mosque

FORT LAUDERDALE: A man who vandalised a Florida mosque in January 2016 and left a raw slab of bacon on its doorstep was sentenced to...

Vietnam court jails blogger for seven years for ‘propaganda against state’

A court in Vietnam jailed a blogger on Monday for seven years for “conducting propaganda against the state”, the latest action against a critic...

US Marine instructor jailed for abusing Pakistani-American recruits

WASHINGTON: A former US Marine drill instructor was sentenced to 10 years in prison for physically and verbally abusing Muslim recruits, including a 20-year-old...

Man jailed, fined for marrying without permission from first wife

LAHORE: A man in Lahore was jailed for six months and fined Rs 200,000 by a local court for marrying a second woman without...

Amir Khan targeted by ‘inept’ blackmailer over ‘sex tape’, accused sent...

The man who blackmailed Pakistan-born British boxer Amir Khan has been sentenced to 16 months in jail. Sources told that authorities appreciated Amir Khan for...

Pakistan shoemaker jailed over deer skin sandals for Shahrukh Khan

A Pakistani shoemaker has landed himself in jail after he boasted to the media that he was going to send Peshawari sandals made from...

Pakistani jailed in England for keeping wife ‘in servitude’

A Pakistani man was handed a two year jail sentence Friday after becoming the first in England to be convicted of keeping his wife...

Saudi reporter jailed for five years for insulting rulers: Amnesty

  Saudi Arabia has sentenced a journalist to five years in jail for insulting the kingdom’s rulers and “inciting public opinion” on Twitter, Amnesty International...

Taiwan tycoon jailed over tainted cooking oil scandal

A Taiwanese tycoon was jailed for four years on Friday over a tainted cooking oil scandal that sparked widespread public outrage across the island. Wei...

Rangers tortured jailed MQM workers, Farooq Sattar claims

Says MQM workers are being beaten into giving 'favourable' statements Says jailed workers also being lured with dropping criminal charges and improvement in living conditions Muttahida...

Muslim man jailed for selling fake Hajj trips in UK

A Muslim man who conned families in UK out of thousands of pounds with empty promises of pilgrimages to Makkah has been jailed. Mudassir Shaheen,...

Islamic tutor jailed for 20 years in Kenya for preaching extremism

A court in Kenya has found a teacher at an Islamic school guilty of radicalising his students by teaching them extremism and sentenced him...

Two Egyptian policemen jailed for torturing lawyer to death

Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death in a...

Jailed Saudi lawyer wins prestigious human right prize

A Saudi lawyer imprisoned in his country for defending human rights in the oil-rich kingdom has been awarded a prestigious rights prize in Geneva. Walid...

Egypt pardons jailed al Jazeera journalists

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi on Wednesday pardoned the jailed Canadian journalist with Al-Jazeera television, Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Muhammad, a...

Kentucky clerk jailed for denying same-sex marriage licenses

A county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds was held in contempt of court by...

Former Maldives president Nasheed jailed for 13 years

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was convicted of a terrorism charge by a criminal court and sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday. The...