An accountability court has handed ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference, and acquitted him in the Flagship Investments reference.

On 4 December, the MEMORIAL Human Rights Center reported at its Internet resource, “On November 29, a round table discussion was held at the Sakharov Center in Moscow on the topic “Human Rights and the Problem of “Prohibited Organizations” in Russia”. The reason for the discussing of this topic was the July judgement in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa, in which 21 defendants received up to 24 years…

The Turkey-U.S. Joint Working Group will meet in Washington on January 8 to discuss the U.S.' withdrawal from Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Friday. Çavuşoğlu announced that there were three joint working groups between Turkey and the U.S. “We are going to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, and how to coordinate it together in these meetings,"

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