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Lawyers and supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan chant slogans against the court decision at his residence, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Pakistani police on Saturday arrested former Prime Minister Khan at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. It’s the second time the popular opposition leader has been detained this year.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan handed 3-year sentence and moved to high-security prison
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Sat,08/05/23-3:20AM , 593 Reads
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested Saturday after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 2nd left, is seen on a TV screen standing among his lawyers, as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, during a hearing in the colony, in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, about 260 kilometers (163 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Navalny on Friday was convicted on extremism charges and sentenced to 19 years in prisons, in the harshest ruling against the imprisoned Kremlin critic to date. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Kremlin critic Navalny convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison
Fri,08/04/23-3:51AM , 85 Reads
MELEKHOVO, Russia (AP) — A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism and sentenced him to 19 years in prison on Friday. Navalny is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were politically motivated.
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Man sentenced to life in prison in killing of Mississippi sheriff's lieutenant
Tue,08/01/23-2:11PM , 720 Reads
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the killing of a Mississippi law enforcement officer.
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Man gets 40 years for prison escape bid months before expected release date from 7-year sentence
Mon,07/31/23-7:23PM , 236 Reads
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was sentenced Monday to 40 years in state prison for breaking out of a correctional facility and holding two people at gunpoint last year, just months before he was to have completed a seven-year sentence.
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