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Buh-bye: world’s longest prison sentences
Publication date 14 January 2021 | 22:19 | ICT

As a Turkish Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily-clad women he called “kittens” starts a 1,075-year jail term for sex crimes, we look at some of the world’s longest prison sentences.

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