An Uzbek hitman, convicted of attempting to murder regime critic Imam Obid Nazarov in Sweden in 2012, has been denied a sentence reduction by Örebro District Court. The attacker, who was extradited from Russia in 2015, is serving a life sentence.
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has withdrawn his appeal for house arrest, ending a legal dispute over whether an addendum order from the Pardons Board allowed him to serve his reduced sentence at home. His lawyers filed a notice of discontinuance on April 2, giving no reason for the withdrawal. Najib, 72, is serving a six-year jail term in Kajang Prison after his original 12-year sentence for misappropriating 42 million ringgit from SRC International was halved by the Pardons Board in 2024.
