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  • Israeli man jailed twice for avoiding military service

    An 18-year-old Israeli man who was jailed for 30 days for refusing to serve in the Israeli military has been sentenced to another 30 days in prison. Mr Mitnick is the first Israeli to be jailed as a conscientious objector in the Israel-Hamas war.  He was released from an Israeli military prison last week after…

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  • Two Chinese nationals have received jail sentences from a Cape Town court, after they were convicted of smuggling abalone and growing dagga. Image shows a typical abalone harvested in the sea or on rocks. The judgement was issued at Khayelitsha Priority Crimes Court on Friday. According to the statement from Western Cape police: “Han Ran, 31,…

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  • A man who calls himself a spiritual “master” was yesterday sentenced to 12 years in prison, with an additional 12 strokes of the cane for raping a woman who had sought help from him. The victim asked him to help her get rid of “ghosts” in her flat. Ow Siew Hoe, 49, also known as…

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  • Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined a total of 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after he was found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a Spanish court is quoted as saying on Wednesday. The court also handed Jorge Messi [the player’s father] same jail sentence and fined him…

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