{"id":9076,"date":"2026-02-27T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:00:29","slug":"romanian-court-of-appeal-upholds-nine-month-prison-sentence-for-wiz-khalifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9076","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Court of Appeal upholds nine-month prison sentence for Wiz Khalifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Wiz Khalifa is to serve a nine-month prison sentence in Romania after the Constan\u021ba Court of Appeal rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/wiz-khalifa-challenges-prison-sentence-romania-2026\" target=\"_blank\">his annulment appeal<\/a>, issuing a final ruling in the case. The sentence stems from a 2024 incident in which the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/beach-please-wiz-khalifa-cannabis-romania-2024\" target=\"_blank\">smoked cannabis on stage<\/a> at a music festival in Costine\u0219ti.<\/p>\n<p>In its decision, the Constan\u021ba Court of Appeal dismissed as inadmissible the annulment appeal filed by Thomaz Cameron Jibril, known professionally as Wiz Khalifa, against a previous ruling issued on December 18, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/justitie\/rapperul-wiz-khalifa-ramane-cu-condamnarea-de-noua-luni-de-inchisoare-cu-executare-dupa-ce-curtea-de-apel-constanta-i-a-respins-contestatia-in-anulare-decizia-este-definitiva-1922405426312026021622361089\" target=\"_blank\">News.ro<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court also rejected his request to suspend the execution of the prison sentence. The decision is final.<\/p>\n<p>Wiz Khalifa was convicted of illegal possession of risk drugs for personal use after prosecutors said he held 18.53 grams of cannabis and a cannabis cigarette on July 13, 2024, while attending the Beach, Please! festival in Costine\u0219ti.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, the Constan\u021ba Court of Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/wiz-khalifa-prison-sentence-romania-dec-2025\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced the rapper<\/a> to nine months in prison with execution, overturning an earlier ruling by the Constan\u021ba Tribunal that had imposed a criminal fine of RON 3,600. Prosecutors from Romania\u2019s anti-organized crime unit, DIICOT, challenged the initial fine, leading to the harsher sentence on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper was formally indicted in October 2024 on charges of holding risk drugs without authorization for personal consumption.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Yakub88\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Wiz Khalifa is to serve a nine-month prison sentence in Romania after the Constan\u021ba Court of Appeal rejected his annulment appeal, issuing a final ruling in the case. The sentence stems from a 2024 incident in which the artist smoked cannabis on stage at a music festival in Costine\u0219ti. In its decision, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}