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Woman Wrongfully Convicted In Murder Case Released After 13 Years
Kimberly Hanzlik, 59, was convicted in 2011 alongside gunman Joseph Meldish.
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Who Is Vadim Krasikov, The Assassin Freed In Russian Prisoner Swap
Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin.
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Maldives Ex-President Freed From Jail After Court Overturns Conviction
Jailed former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was freed Thursday after the High Court overturned his conviction and 11-year prison sentence on graft and money-laundering charges.
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Convicted Of Rape, Ex-Brazil Star Dani Alves Freed On Bail For 1 Million Euros
The ruling came a day after his lawyer requested his release on the grounds that he had already served a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023.
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Rajiv Gandhi Case Convict Dies At Chennai Hospital. He Was Freed In 2022
Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.
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Russian Convicted For Killing Journalist Freed After Fighting In Ukraine
Russian former detective Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who was convicted over the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
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Russian Who Raped, Stabbed Girlfriend 111 Times Freed By Putin. Here's Why
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned a convicted murderer after he decided to enlist for the war in Ukraine.
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Ex-UP Minister, Jailed For Poet's Murder, To Be Freed After 17 Years. What Is The Case?
Amarmani Tripathi, a former Uttar Pradesh minister convicted of conspiracy in the 2003 murder of poet Madhumita Shukla, will be released from jail. Tripathi was then a minister in BSP chief Mayawati's government.
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Supreme Court Rejects Plea Against Verdict That Freed 3 In Delhi Rape Case
The Supreme Court has dismissed petitions seeking review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gangrape and murder case of a 19-year-old girl in Chhawla area here in 2012.
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Death Row Convict Freed After 28 Years As He Was Juvenile At Time Of Crime
Twenty-eight years after the murder, Supreme Court on Monday ordered the release of a death row convict after finding he was a minor at the time of the crime.
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Supreme Court To Review Its Verdict That Freed 3 Rape-Murder Convicts
The Supreme Court today agreed to constitute a three-judge bench to consider Delhi Police's plea for a review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi's Chhawla area in 2012.
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Man Sent To Jail "Till Last Breath" Freed By Dehi High Court. Here's Why
The Delhi High court acquitted a man who was convicted in the 2014 murder case. He was sentenced till his last breath in jail in 2019.
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Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj's Links To India: 5 Points
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer responsible for a series of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from jail in Nepal on Thursday. This comes after an order from Nepal's Supreme Court.
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Charles Sobhraj, "Bikini Killer", To Be Released From Jail Today
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, is due to be freed on Thursday after nearly 20 years in prison in Nepal, his lawyer said.
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Arrangements In Place: Official On 4 Rajiv Gandhi Case Convicts' Camp Stay
Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.
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Woman Wrongfully Convicted In Murder Case Released After 13 Years
Kimberly Hanzlik, 59, was convicted in 2011 alongside gunman Joseph Meldish.
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Who Is Vadim Krasikov, The Assassin Freed In Russian Prisoner Swap
Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin.
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Maldives Ex-President Freed From Jail After Court Overturns Conviction
Jailed former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was freed Thursday after the High Court overturned his conviction and 11-year prison sentence on graft and money-laundering charges.
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Convicted Of Rape, Ex-Brazil Star Dani Alves Freed On Bail For 1 Million Euros
The ruling came a day after his lawyer requested his release on the grounds that he had already served a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023.
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Rajiv Gandhi Case Convict Dies At Chennai Hospital. He Was Freed In 2022
Santhan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who was later released by the Supreme Court, died at a Chennai hospital this morning due to liver failure.
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Russian Convicted For Killing Journalist Freed After Fighting In Ukraine
Russian former detective Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who was convicted over the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
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Russian Who Raped, Stabbed Girlfriend 111 Times Freed By Putin. Here's Why
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned a convicted murderer after he decided to enlist for the war in Ukraine.
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Ex-UP Minister, Jailed For Poet's Murder, To Be Freed After 17 Years. What Is The Case?
Amarmani Tripathi, a former Uttar Pradesh minister convicted of conspiracy in the 2003 murder of poet Madhumita Shukla, will be released from jail. Tripathi was then a minister in BSP chief Mayawati's government.
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Supreme Court Rejects Plea Against Verdict That Freed 3 In Delhi Rape Case
The Supreme Court has dismissed petitions seeking review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gangrape and murder case of a 19-year-old girl in Chhawla area here in 2012.
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Death Row Convict Freed After 28 Years As He Was Juvenile At Time Of Crime
Twenty-eight years after the murder, Supreme Court on Monday ordered the release of a death row convict after finding he was a minor at the time of the crime.
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Supreme Court To Review Its Verdict That Freed 3 Rape-Murder Convicts
The Supreme Court today agreed to constitute a three-judge bench to consider Delhi Police's plea for a review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi's Chhawla area in 2012.
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Man Sent To Jail "Till Last Breath" Freed By Dehi High Court. Here's Why
The Delhi High court acquitted a man who was convicted in the 2014 murder case. He was sentenced till his last breath in jail in 2019.
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Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj's Links To India: 5 Points
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer responsible for a series of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from jail in Nepal on Thursday. This comes after an order from Nepal's Supreme Court.
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Charles Sobhraj, "Bikini Killer", To Be Released From Jail Today
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, is due to be freed on Thursday after nearly 20 years in prison in Nepal, his lawyer said.
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Arrangements In Place: Official On 4 Rajiv Gandhi Case Convicts' Camp Stay
Following an 'information' that the four life convicts freed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, now lodged in a camp here, would be resorting to a hunger strike over basic amenities, a top official visited the premises on Monday.
