Appeal Court upholds conviction of professor jailed for rigging election for Akpabio and more
Find these stories and much more when you grab a copy of The Guardian on Wednesday.…
Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says ‘determined to continue fighting’
Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi gave an interview to FRANCE 24 while on temporary leave from Tehran's Evin prison. Despite nine trials and facing another 10 years in jail, she is…
‘My father stayed to defend his people’: Son of jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai
The son of jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, pro-democracy activist and founder of the now-defunct tabloid Apple Daily newspaper, Jimmy Lai. The elder Lai, in prison since December 2020, is currently on…
El Salvador frees woman jailed over miscarriage
The 29-year-old woman had served six years out of a 10-year sentence for 'aggravated homicide' under El Salvador's abortion laws. She was eight months pregnant when she had a miscarriage in a…
‘No words to express what we are going through’ say victim’s family as Tate Modern attacker jailed for life
Detective inspector Melanie Pressley reads a statement on behalf of the parents of a six-year-old French boy who was thrown from a viewing platform at London's Tate Modern on August 2019, and…
Jailed over unpaid debts in Egypt
Today, one in three Egyptians live just above the poverty line. As a consequence, the rate of micro-credit lending has grown, with women the principle beneficiaries. Some 70 percent of loans in…
How Ayomide Idowu was raped, jailed and acquitted
Raped, arrested and jailed, Ayomide Idowu narrates his ordeal to GuardianTV. Idowu tells us how he was picked up by members of the Nigerian police force on a routine check somewhere in…
Jailed Senator Dariye co-sponsors a motion from prison
Jailed Senator Dariye co-sponsors a motion from prison.…
Wife of jailed British academic welcomes pardon, denies he spied on UAE
Wife of jailed British academic welcomes pardon, denies he spied on UAE…