Prison

• Court orders release of prominent Turkish journalist from prison pending appeal - A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release of veteran journalist Fatih Altayli from prison pending the outcome of his appeal against a conviction for allegedly threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Altayli, 63, a longtime columnis
• Russian court sentences pro-war activist and Putin critic to 6 years in prison - A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison. Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin a
• Sarkozy describes his prison stay and advises on appealing to the far right in his new book - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” world of “inhuman violence" in a book released Wednesday that also offered political advice about how his conservative party sh