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Egypt
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Courts & Law
7/19/2023 11:58:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential pardon on Wednesday for researcher Patrick George Zaki and rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer among a number of prisoners, announced the Presidential Pardon Committee.
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World
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Region
7/19/2023 7:01:10 PM
A court in Iran has given a prominent actress a suspended two-year prison sentence for failing to wear the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Politics
7/18/2023 10:49:00 PM
The National Dialogue’s Board of Trustees has appealed to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to utilize his legal and constitutional authority to immediately release human rights activist Patrick George Zaki, who was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
7/18/2023 7:21:34 PM
A Mansoura High Emergency State Security Court on Tuesday sentenced researcher and political activist Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison on charges of spreading false news.
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World
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Africa
7/8/2023 8:41:19 PM
Mali has freed at least two jihadists from the Sahel affiliate of the Islamic State group in a prisoner exchange, a security official and two politicians told AFP on Saturday.
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World
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Region
7/8/2023 3:48:44 PM
A court in the Libyan capital sentenced three people to harsh prison terms on charges of human trafficking, in the first such ruling in a North African nation where migrants are routinely mistreated.
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World
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Region
6/26/2023 4:20:00 PM
Iran said on Monday it was hoping indirect talks with the United States could lead to a "positive" outcome for a prisoner swap.
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World
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Region
6/18/2023 4:38:06 PM
Yemen's government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels are locked in talks in Jordan to set the ground for a possible prisoner exchange, a Red Cross official told AFP on Sunday.
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World
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Region
6/12/2023 3:08:20 PM
Iran on Monday said it has continued indirect negotiations with the United States through the Sultanate of Oman over its nuclear deal and a possible prisoner swap.
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World
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Region
6/10/2023 8:59:06 PM
The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 12:10:44 PM
Riyadh and Washington urged Western governments Thursday to repatriate citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, where thousands still languish in prisons or camps.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 12:04:48 PM
Israeli occupation forces demolished Thursday the home of the Palestinian prisoner Islam Froukh in the old town of Ramallah; and injured six people during a raid in the West Bank, Palestinian News Agency " WAFA" reported.
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World
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Region
6/5/2023 1:33:19 PM
An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian to life in prison for the 2015 killing of an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, the occupation army said Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/4/2023 9:32:59 PM
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine said on Sunday that fighting was ongoing on his side of the frontier and acknowledged pro-Ukrainian forces had taken Russians prisoner during cross-border clashes.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
5/30/2023 9:03:11 PM
In the latest legal battle between Mortada Mansour, the former President of Zamalek, and Mahmoud El-Khattib, the President of Ahly, Egypt's Economic Misdemeanor Court has delivered a 3-months prison sentence against Mansour.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/27/2023 9:36:00 AM
There may be nothing more indicative of the bias and lack of objectivity in US mainstream media than the case of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian political activist and political detainee who died in the Ramla maximum security prison after an 87-day hunger strike in protest of his detention without trial.
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World
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Region
5/26/2023 3:57:27 PM
Belgium and Iran conducted a prisoner exchange Friday in Oman, with officials saying Tehran released a Belgian aid worker in exchange for an Iranian diplomat convicted of attempting to bomb a meeting of exiles in France.
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World
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International
5/25/2023 9:23:00 PM
The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia was handed an 18-year prison sentence Thursday for seditious conspiracy in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the toughest penalty given yet over the January 6 assault.
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World
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Region
5/25/2023 7:19:41 PM
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club pressed Thursday for the release of a seriously ill detainee, held for decades by Israel.
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World
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Africa
5/20/2023 1:52:28 PM
Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails.
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