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Former Mississippi police officer sentenced to 20 years in federal assault case

Former Mississippi police officer sentenced to 20 years in federal assault case

A former Mississippi law enforcement officer who was part of a group that called itself the "Goon Squad," according to prosecutors, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on U.S. civil rights charges for brutally assaulting two Black men, including shooting one in the mouth, local media reported. Hunter Elward, who pled guilty last year, was the first of six white former law enforcement officers involved to be sentenced over the next three days in a U.S. District Court in Mississippi. The men are charged with several federal crimes including deprivation of rights and obstruction of justice. "I don’t think…
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Iran envoy jailed for 20-year over bomb plot

Iran envoy jailed for 20-year over bomb plot

CLEMENT ROSSIGNOL and Robin EMMOTT AN Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday, in the first trial of an Iranian official for suspected terrorism in Europe since Iran's 1979 revolution. Asadollah Asadi was found guilty of attempted terrorism after a foiled plot to bomb a rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) near Paris in June 2018, Belgian prosecution lawyers and civil parties to the prosecution said. The third counsellor at Iran's embassy in Vienna, he was arrested in Germany before being…
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