A court in Tajikistan on Tuesday released two men — a Russian and an Estonian — whose prosecution had led to a confrontation with Moscow.
The leaders of the rightwing militia in Oregon could spend more years in prison than the two ranchers whose prosecution and imprisonment inspired the occupation.
They could face up to six years behind bars – meaning they could be in prison for more years than the Hammond ranchers whose prosecution inspired the standoff.
They said the measure was an effort to create a class of "thought crimes" whose prosecution would require ascribing motivation to the attacker.
MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire whose prosecution by the Russian government has come to symbolize the country's legal failings, lost an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a second conviction.
A man who acted as a spokesman for the 'hacktivist' group Anonymous and whose prosecution raised concerns about the protections supposedly guaranteed to journalists under the constitution, has been jailed for more than five years.
Last year, she told Bob Woodward, of the Washington Post, that there was at least one Guantánamo detainee whose prosecution she couldn't allow because his abuse "met the legal definition of torture".
He sees a common thread running through prosecutions of activists for DDoS attacks and those of Swatrz, Auernheimer and Barrett Brown, a former affiliate of hacktivist collective Anonymous currently in prison facing charges under the CFAA, whose prosecution has also attracted criticism.
Barrett Brown, the activist-journalist whose prosecution linked to the 2012 Stratfor email hack sparked first-amendment concerns among internet activists, lawyers and publishers, has agreed to a plea deal, according to Wired.
On Thursday, Danny Chivers, one of the activists whose prosecution was abandoned, said: "Given there was an unambiguous miscarriage of justice involving 20 people, and a £1m second collapsed trial, it is astonishing that nobody is to be held to account".
