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World
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Region
12/26/2022 3:48:01 PM
Six members of Kurdish-led security forces and two jihadists were killed Monday in a failed Islamic State group assault near a prison for extremists in northern Syria, a war monitor said.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 5:20:36 PM
A court in Maldives on Sunday found the former president guilty of money laundering and accepting a bribe and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
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World
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Region
12/21/2022 12:39:35 PM
Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that the remains of a Palestinian prisoner who died a day earlier from lung cancer would not be released for burial.
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World
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International
12/20/2022 10:42:46 PM
All 33 suspected militant prisoners who seized a Pakistan police station over the weekend were killed and their hostages freed in a clearance operation by special forces on Tuesday, the defence minister said.
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World
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Region
12/20/2022 9:43:21 PM
Hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of masked gunmen firing into the air, took to the streets and stores shuttered across the occupied West Bank to protest the death of a veteran prisoner in Israeli captivity.
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World
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Region
12/18/2022 8:09:17 PM
A prison inmate in Iran has been shot dead and over a dozen wounded in a riot that erupted when detainees protested an imminent execution, a rights group said Sunday.
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World
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International
12/18/2022 3:48:09 PM
France on Sunday condemned Israel's expulsion of French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri, who had been held in Israeli prisons without charge since March accused of security offences.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/14/2022 9:28:01 PM
Ukraine said Wednesday that it had secured the release of a US citizen as well as 64 Ukrainian members of the military in its latest prisoner swap with Russian forces.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/14/2022 7:49:05 PM
The new head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday said she was prepared to go to Moscow to discuss access to prisoners of war (POWs).
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World
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Region
12/14/2022 6:42:42 PM
Hamas will end talks on securing a prisoner exchange with Israel unless there is progress soon, the militant group's leader in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
12/10/2022 7:03:54 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced granting exceptional visits to inmates at correctional centres nationwide until 29 December on the occasion of the Human Rights Day on Saturday.
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World
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International
12/9/2022 2:11:29 PM
American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.
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World
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Region
12/8/2022 1:14:12 PM
Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
12/5/2022 8:08:29 PM
Egyptian journalist and researcher Ismail Eskandrani was released from prison on Monday after serving a seven-year prison sentence over charges including spreading fake news.
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World
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Region
11/29/2022 7:37:40 PM
A Belgian aid worker detained in Iran is on a hunger strike over the "inhuman" treatment by his captors, his family said on Tuesday, expressing worries about his failing health.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/29/2022 5:34:47 PM
Russia and the United States have repeatedly been on the verge of agreement on a prisoner exchange, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday, adding that a deal is still possible before the year's end.
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Egypt
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Society
11/17/2022 4:43:12 PM
Egypt's cabinet issued a decree that will remain in effect for three months penalising vendors who monopolise or stock up on rice with at least one year in prison and hefty fines to prevent any shortages in the strategic commodity in the market.
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World
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International
11/4/2022 2:46:32 PM
Six police were wounded Thursday in the latest prison riot to hit Ecuador, officials said, as the country is gripped by violence blamed on organized crime groups waging a deadly drug war.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
11/2/2022 6:08:08 PM
A Giza misdemeanour court sentenced the landlord of Faisal building to both 3 year imprisonment and an EGP 80 million fine for endangering the residents' lives and for constructing a building without a permit.
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Sports
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World
11/1/2022 10:47:33 AM
Neymar's trial concluded on Monday with the company that accused him of fraud and corruption reducing the prison sentence it sought for the player's alleged involvement in irregularities related to his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013.
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