•Binance Founder, Changpeng Zhao The founder of cryptocurrency firm, Binance, was sentenced to four months in US prison yesterday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest cryptocurrency ex...
A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...
•Angelo Becciu A former deputy secretary of state in the Vatican and nine others were yesterday found guilty in the enclave’s biggest financial corruption scandal. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by prosecutors as “actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system.” B...
•The jailed health workers Four healthcare workers have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, reports The BBC yesterday. While Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, Danny Ohen an...
•Jailed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko A Senegalese judge today ordered that jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko be reinstated on the electoral roll, clearing the way for him to stand in next year’s presidential election. Sonko was struck off Senegal’s electoral register after being sentenced in June to two years’ imprisonment for morally...
•Prison The High Court in Bauchi, Bauchi State, has sentenced Adamu AbdulRauf and Abdulkadir Wada to 35 years in jail for luring six-year-old Hauwa’u Ya’u to an uncompleted building and cutting off her genitals. The crime happened three years ago in Jama’are Local Council. In January 2021, Bauchi State Police Command had arrested the duo [&hel...