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Lengthy sentences to Turkish contractors for criminal negligence

Published on: March 22, 2024
13:39

Ankara, Mar 22 (Prensa Latina) A Turkish court on Friday sentenced three contractors and an engineer to 17.5 years in prison for criminal negligence in the construction of a building that collapsed in 2023, killing 89 people.

Brazilian Supreme Court to conclude trial on coup plotting

Published on: February 9, 2024
10:11

Brasilia, Feb 9 (Prensa Latina) Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) is to conclude today the trial against 12 other defendants for their alleged involvement in the coup acts of January 8, 2023 in this capital.

Costa Rican Parliament strengthens parole law

Published on: January 17, 2024
10:15

San José, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica took another step today in the reforms to laws aimed at reducing crime, with the modification of the parole law.

Argentines sentenced to prison terms in Uruguay for drug trafficking

Published on: January 7, 2024
10:40

Montevideo, Jan 7 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan justice acted quickly and sentenced three Argentines to sentences of between four and five years for drug trafficking, it was reported today.

Long sentences for those accused of femicide in Kosovo

Published on: August 4, 2023
12:50

Pristina, Aug 4 (Prensa Latina) A man was sentenced to life imprisonment and another one to 15 years in prison for the murder of an 18-year-old woman in 2021 in Kosovo, a self-proclaimed independent Serbian territory.

Chadian insurgents face severe penalties

Published on: February 13, 2023
12:35

N'Djamena, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) The 150 members of the Chadian insurgent group Front for Concord and Change (FACT, in French), who will be tried in this capital on Monday, are facing five severe accusations, several of which are liable to capital punishment.

2 Pa. judges ordered to pay M to kids-for-cash scandal victims

Published on: August 17, 2022
19:01

Washington, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay over million to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes, CBS reported on Wednesday. In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan judges locked up a country-run juvenile detention center and accepted .8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.

Constitutional guarantees are respected in trials for riots in Cuba

Published on: February 14, 2022
12:36

Havana, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) The lawyers representing those involved in the criminal proceedings arising from the riots that took place in Cuba in July 11 and 12, 2021, assured that constitutional guarantees have been respected during the trials.

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