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Sofia City Court (SGS) convicted on Monday the leader of nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, and his fellow party member, Desislav Chukolov, of hooliganism.

Siderov and Chukolov are convicted of hooliganism for their incursion into the building of the National academy for theatre and film arts (NATFIZ) on the night of the local elections on October 25 last year.

The leader of Bulgaria's nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, has pleaded guilty to three charges against him.

Siderov pleaded guilty to the interruption of 2011 concert in the town of Batak, the 2013 attack of journalist and policeman in front of the parliament building and his incursion into the building of the National academy for theatre and film arts (NATFIZ) in 2015.

The Sofia City Court on Friday handed a one-year suspended sentence to Vladimira Yaneva, the court's former chair.

A 21-year-old Wisconsin farm worker has been jailed for having sex with a female donkey because his ‘privates were out of control’.

Gideon D Swartzentruber from Neillsville, Clark County, was initially sentenced to probation, counseling and fined $443 after being caught having sex with the donkey by its owner last September, as Daily Mail reports.

A man has been sentenced to electronically-monitored home arrest for allegedly defaming President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an following a prosecutor?s objection to his release after he was detained over the same charge.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced on April 23 to two years? probation and fined $100,000 for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.

Alternate Civil Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis said on Monday that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government is closing the controversial migrant detention center at Amygdalezi in about 100 days. The statement was made following a meeting between mr. Panousis and Alternate Migrant Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou.

Bulgaria's judicial authorities plan to introduce electronic tagging of criminal offenders put under house arrest, a prison system official said on Tuesday.

Currently, the electronic monitoring devices are used to track the movement of convicts sentenced to prison terms and released on probation, Valentina Karaganova, head of the project, told Nova TV station on Tuesday.

The Ermenek Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that officials from the Karaman mine be put on probation for their possible responsibility in the disaster, in which 18 miners have been trapped underground since Oct. 28.

Grammy-winning RB singer Chris Brown was released on Monday from a Los Angeles jail where he was serving a one-year sentence for violating probation from his 2009 assault of pop singer Rihanna.
   
Brown was released from Men's Central Jail at 12:01 a.m., said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Tony Moore.