In Austria, the Korneuburg Regional Court sentenced a 73-year-old Italian man to eight years in prison for a serious sexual ...

Austria's criminal code prescribes prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years to life for murder — but in Austrian terms, a life sentence is interpreted as 20 to 25 years of confinement.

Associated PressJosef Fritzl, center, is escorted to the fourth day of his trial in the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria, Thursday, March 19, 2009. He received a life sentence for ...

Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward Thursday for one of Austria's most notorious crimes: Locking his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, fathering her seven children and ...

At hearing on June 8, Judge Gerhard Pöllinger-Sorré of the Klagenfurt Regional Court sentenced the solider to 19 months in prison, Kleine Zeitung said. The soldier's attorney is appealing, it said.

Don’t Overlook Austria’s Gay Prison Drama ‘Great Freedom’ in the International Oscar Race ... You shot the film before and during the pandemic, in an actual prison.

A right-wing Austrian writer who fled to Spain after being convicted of Holocaust denial charges 15 years ago must serve his 18-month sentence, Vienna's highest court said Monday.

Prison is prison,” Ms Wagner said, adding that he would continue to receive psychotherapy. In 2008, his daughter Elisabeth managed to tell police that he was holding her captive.

Austria to introduce doping prison term. ... The changes still require ratification by Austria’s parliament however once passed are expected to be in effect from January 1, 2010.

A 36-year-old Bosnian escaped from an Austrian prison by getting himself shrink-wrapped with some parts for street lamps made by inmates and trucked out, the mass-circulation Kronen daily said.

ST. POELTEN, Austria — Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward Thursday for one of Austria’s most notorious crimes: Locking his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, fath… ...

ST. POELTEN, Austria (AP) — Numbers told the story of one of Austria’s most notorious crimes: A father locked his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years. He raped her 3,000 times. She bore him ...