Burglars should only be jailed if they cause property damage or hurt someone, courts have been told. (Posed by model) Burglars should not be jailed unless they cause damage or hurt someone when committing their crime, Government advisers said yesterday. The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for ‘minimal... 

Ernst Zundel with Ingrid Rimland at an IHR conference, May 2000 A message from From Ingrid Rimland Zundel (Ernst Zundel’s wife) Seven Years Behind Bars: Anniversary of Ernst Zundel’s Arrest To all – Allegedly, in just a few weeks, on March 1, 2010, Europe’s best-known political prisoner and my husband, Ernst Zundel, is scheduled to be released from prison. In an emotional telephone... 

Dr Töben was released from prison at 8.00am, Thursday 12th November, after serving a three month sentence for Holocaust denial (re-branded as contempt of court). He is unbroken and unrepentant, and appears very refreshed and relaxed after his little holiday. He was welcomed home by his friends and supporters who held a celebratory dinner for him, on Thursday evening. During his speech on the night,... 

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable... 

Jersey City & Kearny, NJ (TRN Staff) — At a 3:30 PM hearing held yesterday in the Superior Court of New Jersey at 595 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, the Honorable Judge Kevin Callahan ordered that Hal Turner be freed on bail. At about 2:30 AM Tuesday morning, Turner was released from jail after posting $25,000 bail. Turner had been held without bail at the Hudson County Correctional Center in... 

Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a teenager in connection with the fatal shooting of a Portland high school student. Todd Allen Rutherford was arrested about 6 p.m. Monday in Northeast Portland, police said. He was being held at the Multnomah County jail on one count of murder and was expected to make his initial court appearance Wednesday. Rutherford is accused of gunning down 18-year-old... 

Three people have been charged with capital murder and armed robbery in Brookhaven. Assistant Police Chief Nolan Jones says the charges are related to Wednesday’s shooting death of 21-year-old James Braswell. Jones says charges were filed Thursday against 17-year-old Latonio Terrell Hamilton, 20-year-old Tygwan L. Berry and 19-year-old Marvin L. Truss, all of Brookhaven.  Read More »

A Japanese court sentenced an Israeli to eight years in prison on Friday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy into the country, according to friends of his family. The Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, is the youngest of three yeshiva students arrested a year ago while attempting to enter Japan with suitcases containing large quantities of Ecstasy pills. The other... 

Gerald Frederick Toben, 64, was convicted in the Federal Court on 24 counts of contempt of court after continuing to publish material about Jews and the Holocaust on his Adelaide Institute website, despite 2002 orders to stop. Judge Bruce Lander said Toben, who will be sentenced later this month, had steadfastly refused to comply with the law. He did not accept that freedom of speech “does not...