A German former Catholic priest was on Thursday sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for more than 100 cases of child sexual abuse and other offences.
A German court on Thursday sentenced a man to two and a half years in jail for running a banned neo-Nazi website, finding him guilty of inciting racial hatred.
A German man who stabbed to death a
nine-year-old boy, bragged about it online and then killed another man while on the run was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday.
While police in the capital were still on the hunt for five inmates who escaped from Berlin's Plötzensee prison on Thursday, another two broke out only four days later on New Year's Day.
A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, 96, lost his final legal challenge against being jailed when Germany's highest court Friday rejected his appeal.
A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, now 96, has filed a challenge against his jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, arguing that imprisonment would violate his "right to
life".
Former chancellor Gerhard Schröder intervened directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to arrange the release of a jailed German human rights activist, Berlin said on Thursday.
Sieglinde Baumert began a six-month prison sentence in February after refusing to co-operate with the authorities trying to force her to pay the public broadcaster fee.
A German court Thursday sentenced a paediatrician to more than 13 years in jail followed by indefinite preventive detention for sexually abusing 21 boys as young as four.
A politician from Germany’s far right National Democratic Party (NPD) was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Tuesday for displaying his Nazis tattoo in public.
Germany is continuing its zero tolerance approach to football supporters lighting flares in Bundesliga grounds after a
Schalke supporter was jailed for 18 months on Thursday with no parole.
A court in Kassel sentenced a man to three years in jail on Monday after his children died in the bath while he was checking train times at the station.
Justice chiefs have blamed a series of unlikely accidents after two men escaped from a Berlin prison on Monday morning by scaling the fence with a blanket.
Dozens of British and American prisoners are deciding to serve their time in German jails rather than transferring home, justice ministry figures seen by The Local reveal.
German authorities have launched an investigation after a prisoner swapped identities with a cell-mate who was due to be released, and simply walked out of jail.
Five prisoners in Lower Saxony deemed too dangerous to release even though they have served their sentences are on a hunger strike for better conditions including internet access, pay TV and conjugal visits.
The threat by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning to sue two German reporters shows that she is under great pressure, according to an activist who is also under fire from the woman.
Prisoners have a right to protection against offensive symbols such as neo-Nazi graffiti and gross breaches of hygiene such as excrement smeared on their cell walls, Germany's constitutional court ruled Friday.
Police said on Monday they narrowly missed nabbing escaped convict Peter Paul Michalski in Mülheim an der Ruhr early, but called on the dangerous criminal to give himself up before someone is harmed.
A German appeals court on Monday confirmed a 15-year prison sentence handed to a woman for killing eight of her newborn babies in the country's worst post-war infanticide case.
Young people who commit violent crimes in Germany often go unpunished, according to a report in the newsmagazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>. Most cases are dropped or offenders given suspended sentences.
