Sentencing

The Belgrade Higher Court has handed down suspended sentences of five and six months to four indictees charged with setting fire to the US embassy in 2008.

By the court's decision, three of those accused have been acquitted.

The sentences will not be enforced if the convicted persons refrain from committing new criminal offenses within two years.

A court in Italy sentenced former Bosnian Army officer Hanefija Prijic to life imprisonment for killing three Italian aid workers - even though he served a sentence for the same crime in Bosnia.

An Athens court handed life terms Tuesday to 27-year-old Stanislav Bakardjev and his 30-year-old codefendant, Nazif Ahmedov for the 2015 murder and mutilation of 4-year-old Ani.

The girl's mother, 25-year-old Dimitrina Borisova, was found guilty of exposing the child to danger. She was given a six-year suspended sentence and granted conditional release.

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 9 backed a sharp toughening of expulsion rules for convicted refugees, saying that even those who have been given suspended sentences should be required to leave Germany.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has approved the two aggravated life sentences handed down to a Turkish man who killed his Irish girlfriend's mother and one of her friends in 2011. 

A Larissa appeals court has upheld a 15-year jail sentence against a 47-year-old man who was found guilty of sexually abusing his autistic son, court sources said on Wednesday.

Three men dragged a woman with a car for 230 meters; she died when she went under the rear wheels. The sentences of 36 years each were reduced to 30 years because of their ?good conduct? in the courtroom.

Turkish EU Minister Bozk?r said that if it was his own daughter in place of Özgecan Aslan, he might feel the wish to 'take arms and seek retribution,' but added that 'the state should not react in this way' as aggravated life imprisonment would be the appropriate sentence for such criminals.

Fallen paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius returns to court Monday at the start of his sentencing hearing after he was convicted of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend

National Liberal Party (PNL) Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu received a definitive sentence of two years, four months imprisonment, issued by the Bucharest Court of Appeals, while former Communications Minister Sorin Pantis received a two year, eight months imprisonment sentence.