Tag: Life imprisonment

  • The Court of Appeal verdict against Hamid Noury ​​will soon be handed down

    The Court of Appeal verdict against Hamid Noury ​​will soon be handed down

    On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal's verdict will be handed down against Hamid Noury, who was sentenced in the Stockholm district court to life imprisonment for gross violations of international law. The Court of Appeal anticipates the risk of disorder and advises staff who can consider working from home. Ekot broadcasts directly due to the…

  • Life imprisonment for 13-year-olds – hear the debate between SD and S

    Life imprisonment for 13-year-olds – hear the debate between SD and S

    The exasperating gang crime goes further down the ages. The Sweden Democrats want 13-year-olds to be able to be sentenced to the law’s most severe punishment. Adam Marttinen, the Sweden Democrats member of the Justice Committee and Ardalan Shekarabi. the social democrats’ group leaders in the justice committee meet in a debate in P1 morning.

  • EXTRA: The investigator after the Court of Appeal verdict in Tovefallet – “This is criminal history”

    EXTRA: The investigator after the Court of Appeal verdict in Tovefallet – “This is criminal history”

    Almost to the day one year after 21-year-old Tove disappeared after a night out in Vetlanda, the Court of Appeal’s verdict came. There is a big difference from the district court’s verdict, where both women were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and grave breach of privacy. The 20-year-old, whom we called Jennifer, is now…

  • The 19-year-old is acquitted of murder

    The 19-year-old is acquitted of murder

    Now came the Court of Appeal verdict in the so-called Vetlanda case. Two women are sentenced for… It was last year that a 21-year-old woman was murdered, suspects for the murder were two other women, a 20-year-old and a 19-year-old who were both sentenced to life imprisonment in the district court. The sentence was appealed,…

  • Jimmie Åkesson (SD): “The government has got it wrong”

    Jimmie Åkesson (SD): “The government has got it wrong”

    On Monday, two Swedes were killed and one injured in a terrorist attack in Brussels. The suspected perpetrator is said to have been motivated by Koran burnings that took place in Sweden. This summer, Säpo raised the terror threat level, they assessed that Sweden had become a priority target for violent Islamism after disinformation campaigns…

  • Therefore, the 19-year-old is released pending judgment

    Therefore, the 19-year-old is released pending judgment

    After the last day of the appeal court hearing, the 19-year-old was released pending a verdict. She was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for the murder of a 21-year-old woman. The presenter is Mattias Rensmo. Hear P4 Jönköping’s reporter Markus Engberg.

  • Great drama when the Tove case ended in the Court of Appeal

    Great drama when the Tove case ended in the Court of Appeal

    It has been almost a year since 21-year-old Tove disappeared after a night out in Vetlanda. Last spring, two girls were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Tove. Both girls have admitted to moving Tove’s body to a forest but they have given different versions of what happened before that. The younger one,…

  • The Vårby conflict that led to the murder of Adriana

    The Vårby conflict that led to the murder of Adriana

    Last week, three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 12-year-old Adriana in Botkyrka in 2020.One of them is a man who is described as the arch-enemy of the Vårby network, and who himself is from Vårby. And it is his conflict with the Vårby network that led to the murder of…

  • The trial begins in a horrific murder case

    Break through Some time after the murder, the police received an inquiry from a psychiatric ward where the defendant was admitted. He was reported to have said some disturbing things. The man’s home was searched and he was questioned, leading to a breakthrough in the case. But years passed, and in the meantime the defendant…

  • VMA in Borgholm, Öland in Kalmar county

    VMA in Borgholm, Öland in Kalmar county

    Life imprisonment for both the accused women in the Vetlanda case. The case has been rewritten in the media and is about two women, aged 18 and 20, who have been charged with the murder of a 21-year-old woman who disappeared last autumn and was later found dead. Hear legal expert Dennis Martinsson and reporters…

  • Life imprisonment for the Tove murder: “They have acted coldly”

    Life imprisonment for the Tove murder: “They have acted coldly”

    Both the 20-year-old girl, whom we have called Jennifer, and the 18-year-old girl, whom we have called Matilda, are sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and grave breach of public order. Jennifer is also convicted of vandalism after trying to burn it down house Tove lived in when she was at home in Vetlanda. The…

  • Iran upholds the death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian Arab dissident

    Iran upholds the death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian Arab dissident

    Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a Swedish-Iranian dual citizen convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks, including one on a 2018 military parade that killed 25 people, state media reported Sunday. Iran said in 2020 that its security forces arrested Sweden-based Habib Farajollah…

  • Brothers are sentenced for aggravated espionage – the older one to life imprisonment

    Brothers are sentenced for aggravated espionage – the older one to life imprisonment

    Two brothers, 42 and 35 years old, have been charged on suspicion of having spied on Sweden on behalf of Russia. According to the indictment, they gained access to the information they handed over via the older brother’s employment within, among others, the Security Police and the Armed Forces. The crimes the brothers are suspected…

  • Iranian Envoy to Sweden Recalled for Consultations

    Iranian Envoy to Sweden Recalled for Consultations

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the country’s ambassador to Sweden has been called back to Tehran for consultations on a Swedish court’s life imprisonment for Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri. – Politics news – “The Islamic Republic of Iran has decided to call the ambassador of our country to Sweden for…

  • The trial of the terrorist attack in Paris: All the accused were found guilty, including Salah Abdeslam

    The trial of the terrorist attack in Paris: All the accused were found guilty, including Salah Abdeslam

    Paris [France]June 30 (ANI): A French court on Wednesday (local time) found all defendants in the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris guilty, including Salah Abdeslam, who organized and carried out the attack on the Bataclan Theater in Paris. In addition to Abdeslam, 19 other men accused of playing crucial roles in the country’s worst peacetime…

  • A convicted terrorist attack in Turku is accused of beating prison guards

    A convicted terrorist attack in Turku is accused of beating prison guards

    Abderrahman Bouanane, A man sentenced to life imprisonment for a terrorist attack in Turku in 2017 is accused of beating guards in Turku Prison. The indictment alleges that in October 2020, while serving his 12 to 15-year sentence, Bouanane bit the prison guard’s finger and kicked another. According to the charges, Bouanane used violence to…

  • The prosecutor is complaining about the release of war crimes

    The prosecutor is complaining about the release of war crimes

    Prosecutors are appealing the Pirkanmaa District Court’s decision for release Gibril Massaquoi charges including murder, aggravated rape and aggravated war crimes, public prosecutor Tom Laitinen has confirmed to the news agency STT. "The main grounds of appeal relate to the assessment of the evidence that the District Court, in our view, erred in its assessment…

  • Two Europeans detained in Iran as EU nuclear ambassador visits

    Two Europeans detained in Iran as EU nuclear ambassador visits

    Iran says it has arrested two citizens of a European country when an EU envoy visited Tehran for talks on stalled nuclear negotiations with world powers. “Two Europeans have been arrested in Iran for organizing riots in the country,” the intelligence ministry was quoted as saying on May 11 by Iranian news agencies. No further…

  • Farda Briefing: Why is Iran so worried about protesting teachers?

    Farda Briefing: Why is Iran so worried about protesting teachers?

    Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, a new RFE / RL newsletter that tracks key issues in Iran and explains why they are important. I’m RFE / RL senior correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here is what I have been following for the past week and what I am looking forward to in the coming days. The…

  • A Finnish court acquitted a Sierra Leonean man of war crimes

    A Finnish court acquitted a Sierra Leonean man of war crimes

    The Pirkanmaa District Court acquitted the charges Gibril Massaquoi The verdict on Friday afternoon included charges including murder, aggravated rape and aggravated war crimes. In its decision, the court found that although there was reason to suspect Massaquoi of the offenses with which he was charged, the prosecutor in the case had not unequivocally established…

  • Prosecutors are complaining about Aarnio’s release

    Prosecutors are complaining about Aarnio’s release

    Prosecutors plan to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of the dismissed drug police Jari Aarnio the 2003 assassination. Aarnio was charged with a former criminal boss Keijo Vilhunen. Prosecutors had demanded life imprisonment for both men, but the Court of Appeal released both in February. There is no appeal against Vilhunen’s acquittal.…

  • Paris attacks accused explain why he has decided to remain silent

    Paris attacks accused explain why he has decided to remain silent

    Thursday’s session of the terrorist trial in Paris, the 94th day of a legal marathon that is likely to last at least another three months, was overshadowed by the decision of two of the accused. . . Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari. . . to be quiet. A third suspect, Mohamed Bakkali, has also indicated…

  • A corrupt former drug group leader was released from prison on a supervised probationary period

    A corrupt former drug group leader was released from prison on a supervised probationary period

    Jari AarnioThe former disgraceful head of the drug unit of the Helsinki police has been released from prison during a supervised probationary period. His lawyer confirmed the move, Riitta Leppiniemi. Aarnio’s location is monitored with an ankle monitor. During the supervised probationary period, convicts are allowed to move only in certain areas. They must also…

  • The Helsinki Court of Appeal overturned Aarnio’s murder sentence

    The Helsinki Court of Appeal overturned Aarnio’s murder sentence

    Ünsal died in controversy over his involvement in the June 2002 robbery at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm. The Helsinki District Court sentenced Aarnio to life imprisonment after finding that he had known about the murder consortium in advance and had failed in his professional duty to prevent it. It also dismissed the charge of murder…

  • The Court of Appeal overturned Aarnio’s murder sentence

    The Court of Appeal overturned Aarnio’s murder sentence

    The Helsinki Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction Jari Aarnio his role in the 2003 assassination. The Helsinki District Court previously ruled that Aarnio had prior knowledge of the Swedish-Turkish contract murder Volgan Ünsal but did nothing to prevent the crime. The court sentenced Aarnio, the former head of the drug unit of the…

  • The man was found guilty but was not convicted of two murders in Southwest Finland

    The man was found guilty but was not convicted of two murders in Southwest Finland

    He had confessed to the murders in court, but denied their alleged deliberate nature. Read more: Police decide investigation into suspected double murder in Turku (1.11.2021) The district court ruled that the defendant was liable to pay more than € 100,000 in compensation to the victims and their families. The prosecutor sentenced him to life…

  • The terrorist attack in Turku is suspected of killing and biting prison guards

    The terrorist attack in Turku is suspected of killing and biting prison guards

    Moroccan national Abderrahman BouananeA person sentenced to life imprisonment for a terrorist attack in Turku in 2017 receives three charges of beating the guards of Turku Prison. The charges were brought before the District Court of Southwest Finland earlier this month, as Bouana is suspected of opposing the violent official on 13, 15 and 31…

  • 17-year-old is sentenced to eight years in prison after police murder

    17-year-old is sentenced to eight years in prison after police murder

    The 17-year-old who has been charged with the murder of a police officer in Gothenburg this summer is sentenced to 8 years in prison for his denial. The district court writes in its judgment that the circumstances were so aggravating that the person as an adult had been sentenced to life imprisonment. The man is…

  • The Court of Appeal sentenced the Kuopio sword striker to life imprisonment

    The Court of Appeal sentenced the Kuopio sword striker to life imprisonment

    The Court of Appeal of Eastern Finland has confirmed the decision of the Pohjois-Savo District Court Joel Marin life sentence for one murder and 20 attempted murders. Marin attacked the victims with a long sword at Savo Vocational College in October 2019 in the classroom of the Kuopio shopping center. A young Ukrainian woman was…

  • FACTS: Life sentences are on average 16-17 years old

    Below you can read more about the indefinite sentence. * Life imprisonment is considered the country’s most severe punishment and is basically a sentence of imprisonment for the rest of your life. * On average, however, life sentences are released after 16-17 years in prison. * At the earliest after 12 years, a lifer can…

  • The Supreme Court upholds life sentence for killing radio host

    This was otherwise the hope for him and his defense lawyer, when they were given permission to have the case before the Supreme Court, which was to decide exclusively on the sentencing and thus not whether Findanis is guilty. The arguments from the defense side were that life imprisonment is a rare punishment for one…

  • Killing of radio host triggers for the third time life sentence for rocker

    Killing of radio host triggers for the third time life sentence for rocker

    This was otherwise the hope for him and his defense lawyer, when they were given permission to have the case before the Supreme Court, which was to decide exclusively on the sentencing and thus not the question of guilt. The arguments from the defense side were that life imprisonment is a rare punishment for one…

  • Police change charge after death

    – The charge has been changed today to a charge of manslaughter, says Deputy Police Inspector Henrik Schou from Bornholm Police. The victim was admitted in critical condition at Bornholms Hospital, after a bloody showdown in an apartment on Fabriksvej in Rønne. It was the apartment’s 35-year-old resident who was arrested a few days later.…