Kazem Gharibabadi, head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, says Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who has been illegally incarcerated in Sweden, has been released from prison.

A senior Iranian rights official says the Islamic republic will not remain silent to a Swedish court's life imprisonment ruling against Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri.

A court in New Delhi on Wednesday sentenced the leading Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment after convicting him of funding terrorism, sparking fresh tensions in the Himalayan region.

A UK police officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and murdering marketing executive Sarah Everard.