The trio were convicted of unlawful assembly in July 2016.

Only a small amount of the gold was recovered, and only two men were convicted of the crime.

The residents of Novosibirsk that were given prison terms were sentenced to 2.5 and 2 years imprisonment.

The inmates at Punta de Rieles have been convicted and sentenced for a number of crimes, with the exception of sexually based assault and drug trafficking.

In July 2008, a conspiracy charge was used to convict graffiti artists for the first time.

Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.

To recall, last week two other individuals who were passing counterfeit money, which was used by them to pay for things in stores in Petrozavodsk, were convicted.

Seven people have been jailed in Saudi Arabia for calling for protests against the ruler on Facebook between five to 20 years!

But they re all inmates at the nearby Women s Correctional Institution and more than 85 percent of them are doing time, like Chanpeng, for drugs.

The reporter herself as well as some netizens wondered if the wave of violence by those who are called to protect the people will continue or if the guilty will ever be brought to justice.

Violations of Security Council arms embargoes contribute greatly to the spread of destruction and suffering in conflict areas and must be strongly condemned.

The Queen and her brother stood trial on Monday 15 May, while the four others accused with them were condemned on the Friday beforehand.

(c) The major and repeated violations of international humanitarian law committed against civilians, as denounced by the International Committee of the Red Cross in June 2007

Following this same logic, in an opinion article for Global Voices' The Bridge, Roy Rojas asks how many people are being unfairly judged by public opinion

In 2007, 12 former deputies (including the former chairman of the Duma Pochtareva) were convicted of taking bribes for decisions in favor Rosvodokanal and other utilities.

The media should not highlight atheist writings in the name of speaking for the killers of the atheists. There should be the death penalty for those who write nasty and blasphemous things on blogs, websites and in social media.

First, there is the spate of neo Nazi attacks on foreigners, which hit the headlines again recently when three young skinheads were convicted and sentenced for killing a black Mozambican man.

Last year, in a widely acclaimed trial, four Rwandans were convicted by a Belgian jury of involvement in the 1994 genocide in their country.

In Switzerland, according to the Federal Statistics Office, there were 147 complaints registered in the three years between 2009 and 2011 and only 66 people were convicted for human trafficking since 2000.

Though the activists were originally convicted and sentenced to community service and suspended jail time, the Department of Justice later filed a re sentencing appeal, arguing that the original sentences for the activists were too light .

Some legal experts argue that the vague language found in these laws actually reinforces racist prejudices in Brazil's justice system, where poorer people of color are far more likely to be convicted of drug trafficking.

To break the cycle of poverty, a country needs to invest in its children s future, not in the imprisonment of 2.3 million people a year, many for non violent crimes that are symptoms of poverty.

By now, of course, 133 defendants from all parties to the wars in ex Yugoslavia have appeared before the Tribunal, charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide.

Nearly three years after mass pro democracy demonstrations rocked the city of Hong Kong, 16 young activists were convicted on August 16 of unlawful assembly for their participation in two separate protests challenging the government.

Watanabe laments the fact that after Japanese war criminals were tried by the Tokyo Tribunal of 1951, No efforts were made in the name of Japan or the Japanese people to look into where responsibility for the war rested.

Noting with satisfaction the efforts made by the Haitian authorities in the fight against impunity, which resulted in the convictions of the police officers responsible for the Carrefour Feuilles massacre and the opening of the trial relating to the Raboteau massacre,

Two bloggers and members of the Committee of Human Rights (Chrr), Mehrdad Rahimi and Kouhyar Goudarzi (photographed above Goudarzi, left, and Rahimi, right) have been accused of wanting to wage a war against God, and charged as being Mohareb (enemies of God).

As Japan s government never ceases to point out, the Yasukuni shrine, built in 1869, venerates the 2.5 million Japanese who have died for their country, not just the 14 judged as war criminals after WWII.