Overturned convictions in the United States

A former children's basketball coach who was convicted in 2013 to 220 years in prison for sexually abusing 36 minors but was released earlier this year, has been taken back into custody.

Nikos Seiragakis, 59, was arrested in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia on Tuesday after a Supreme Court prosecutor demanded a re-examination of the decision to grant him early release in April.

A 43-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a six-yer-old girl from the area of Piraeus will appear before a prosecutor on Thursday. 

The suspect, who worked at a car wash, is accused of luring the child into a warehouse where he proceeded to commit lewd acts. As it emerged from the preliminary investigation, he had abused the girl twice.

An appeals court in Greece has ordered the release of a Somali migrant who had been sentenced to life in prison for people smuggling, in a case that has drawn international attention to draconian border protection laws in the European Union country.

A 27-year-old Syrian national arrested at a migrant camp in Athens last week has reportedly recanted an earlier confession in which he allegedly admitted to being a member of the ISIS terrorist organization and appearing in a 2014 video of the group.

Two people who were wrongfully jailed as members of the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire will receive 15 euros for each of the 400 days they spent in prison, according to an appeals court decision on Monday.

A police officer in the western Turkish province of İzmir has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl. 

Four teenagers were sentenced to jail for taking part in the group rape of a 13-year-old girl in the southwest German town of Felberter, DPA reported.
 

A driver in Istanbul has been sentenced to more than one year in prison for assaulting a female passenger.

A man who was accused of sexually assaulting a mother in a minibus in Istanbul has been sentenced to five years in jail. 

A young woman in western Turkey has died after her boyfriend raped her while she lay comatose, the prosecution said in an indictment, asking the court to jail the man for up to 43 years.