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Prison

A view of Copenhagen. Photo: Pixabay.

World

MONEY LAUNDERING

Lithuanian woman sentenced in Denmark for laundering billions

The Nomad Today/dpa 6/23/22

She has admitted to laundering the enormous sum between 2008 and 2016 through a series of limited partnerships, all of which had accounts at the branch of the Danish Danske Bank in Estonia

FILED - The action artist Maria Aljochina from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot speaks at the DasHaus cultural center during an interview. (to dpa "Pussy riot activist: Putin wages invisible war against the people" from January 26, 2019) Photo: Uwe Anspach / dpa

World

RUSSIA

Russian Pussy Riot band members begin prison hunger strike

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/26/21

Maria Alyokhina and Lyusya Shtein are currently forbidden from speaking to each other at all in jail

FILED - 11 June 2021, Berlin: Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya arrives for a meeting with German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Gruetters at the Berlinale festival grounds on Museum Island. In view of the upcoming verdict against her imprisoned husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, Tikhanovskaya has announced that she will persevere. Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa Pool/dpa.

World

HUMAN RIGHTS

Belarus opposition leader's husband sentenced to 18 years in prison

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/14/21

Five other men were also handed long prison sentences

Copenhagen-Denmark by Pixabay.

World

SPECIAL COURT

Denmark's former immigration minister sentenced to 60 days in prison

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/13/21

The conservative politician is accused of having unlawfully ordered the separation of a couple from Syria because the woman was a minor

FILED - 23 June 2021, Hungary, Budapest: France's Karim Benzema in action during the UEFA European Football Championship soccer match between Portugal and France at Puskas Arena. Real Madrid and France striker Karim Benzema was on Wednesday handed a suspended one-year prison sentence over complicity to attempted blackmail in connection with a sex tape. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa.

Sports

IN FRANCE

Benzema gets one-year suspended sentence in sex tape trial

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/24/21

Benzema was knowingly part of the extortion attempt, the prosecution said

FILED - 15 May 2020, Spain, Palma: A general view of the empty arrival area at Palma de Mallorca airport. Air traffic on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma has been suspended for an indefinite period due to a build-up of volcanic ash, as a relatively strong earthquake jolted residents and a fresh lava flow caused concern. Photo: Clara Margais/dpa

Spain

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Judge orders preventive detention of 12 fugitives from Palma plane

The Nomad Today 11/9/21

The decision to incarcerate them pending trial is due to the seriousness of the suspected crimes and the "high risk" that they will escape

25 October 2021, Bavaria, Munich: The defendant Jennifer W. covers her face with a file in the courtroom before the trial begins. The woman who travelled to Iraq to join Islamic State has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Munich after she was charged with murder and war crimes. She allegedly stood idly by while a little Yazidi girl was chained in a courtyard and died of thirst. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa.

World

TERRORISM

German Islamic State returnee sentenced to 10 years in prison

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/25/21

Jennifer W. was sentenced for membership in a terrorist organisation abroad, aiding and abetting attempted murder, attempting to commit a war crime, and crimes against humanity

FILED - 29 February 2020, Sinsheim: Bayern Munich's Lucas Hernandez is pictured during the German Bundesliga soccer match between 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich at the PreZero Arena. Bayern Munich defender Lucas Hernandez must appear before a Madrid court next week and faces six months in prison, a justice spokesman confirmed on Thursday. Photo: Tom Weller/dpa

Sports

JUSTICE

Bayern Munich defender Hernandez faces prison term in Spain

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/14/21

Restraining orders were originally imposed on him and his girlfriend after a violent argument in 2017

29 September 2021, Ecuador, Guayaquil: Relatives of inmates protest and cry outside the Guayas N1 detention center, where violent clashes broke out. About 400 officers were involved in the operation. Photo: Marcos Pin/dpa.

World

VIOLENCE

More than 100 dead in prison clashes in Ecuador

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/30/21

President Guillermo Lasso imposed a state of emergency on the prison system

World

ESPIONAGE

Swedish consultant handed three years in jail for spying for Russia

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/15/21

The defendant had procured secret information from Scania and fellow vehicle manufacturer Volvo Cars

FILED - 18 August 2020, Belarus, Minsk: Maria Kolesnikova, opposition politician in Belarus, speaks during an opposition press conference in Minsk. Kolesnikova was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday for her role in protests after last year's disputed elections in Belarus, according to state media. Photo: Ulf Mauder/dpa

World

BELARUS

Belarusian protest leader Kolesnikova handed 11-year sentence

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/6/21

She was abducted by the Belarusian KGB in Minsk in early September 2020

FILED - 15 September 2020, Belarus, Minsk: Activist Stepan Latypov is carried away by masked police officers in his residential district in Minsk. A court in Belarus has sentenced political prisoner Stepan Latypov, who attempted suicide in court in June, to eight and a half years in a prison camp under particularly harsh conditions. Photo: Ulf Mauder/dpa.

World

BELARUS

Activist Latypov sentenced to 8 years in prison in Belarus

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/18/21

The human rights organization Viasna has classified him as a victim of judicial arbitrariness in Belarus

Typical pizzas that are served in pizzerias in Finland. Photo: Foreigner.fi.

World

HALLBY PRISON

Swedish prison hostage situation ends in arrest after pizza order

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/22/21

Hostages are said to be a man and a woman, while the hostage-takers were murder convicts armed with razor blades

Pizza-boxes-delivery-food

World

HALLBY PRISON

Inmates take guards hostage in Swedish prison, demand pizza with kebab

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/21/21

Photos actually showed police officers putting several pizza boxes into a car. The pizzeria confirmed that 20 kebab pizzas had been taken away

30 June 2021, US, Elkins Park: US actor Bill Cosby (2nd L) walks to briefly address the media with his attorney Jennifer Bonjean (L) and spokesman Andrew Wyatt (2nd R) in front of his home after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction. Photo: Jim Z. Rider/ZUMA Wire/dpa

World

PROCEDURAL ISSUE

Bill Cosby released from prison; sexual assault conviction overturned

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/1/21

The justices ruled the 83-year-old comedian - who has served more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence - had been denied a fair trial

File photo of the Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona. Photo: picture alliance / Patrick Seeger/dpa.

Sports

HOMICIDE CHARGES

Maradona's personal doctor facing up to 25 years in prison

The Nomad Today/dpa 5/21/21

Maradona died of a heart attack last year in November at the age of 60. He was recovering from brain surgery at the time.

31 January 2021, Berlin: A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Free Kremlin's Prisoners" during a demonstration against the detention of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny was immediately detained upon his arrival in Moscow earlier this month after receiving treatment in Germany following a near-fatal assassination attempt. Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa

World

COURT RULED

Navalny gets jail time as Russian court rules he violated probation

The Nomad Today/dpa 2/3/21

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov warns that Russia would not accept "admonitions" from the European Union.

07 October 2020, Greece, Athens: Protesters clash with policemen during a protest after the Greek Court of Apeal found members of the right-wing extremist party Golden Dawn guilty on charges of killing an anti-fascist rapper in 2013. Photo: -/Eurokinissi/dpa.

World

RACIST MOVEMENT

Greek court sends far-right Golden Dawn leaders to prison

The Nomad Today 10/22/20

They must serve time for running a criminal organization, an Athens court ruled.

Kylmäkoski-prison-by-Google-Maps

Finland

UPDATE - FUGITIVE ARRESTED

Police arrested prisoner released after being mistaken for another

The Nomad Today 7/14/20

The prison director said it was an human error caused by the great similarity between the two inmates.

Kerava-prison-by-Foreigner.fi

Finland

Government wants to ban smoking in prisons

The Nomad Today 6/17/20

The aim of the ban, they say, is to promote the health of prisoners and prevent risks for both prisoners and prison staff.