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World
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Region
3/20/2023 4:02:54 PM
Yemen's Huthi rebels and the internationally recognised government have agreed at talks in Switzerland to swap more than 880 prisoners, both sides said Monday as efforts accelerate to end the war.
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World
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Region
3/15/2023 8:38:07 PM
Iranian activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian walked free Wednesday after over four years behind bars, defiantly shouting slogans against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling for the release of fellow political prisoners.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/12/2023 9:00:23 PM
Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed Egypt’s support for Palestinian prisoners who are protesting policy changes in Israeli jails.
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World
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Region
3/11/2023 1:43:25 PM
Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons say they will intensify their protest against measures taken by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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World
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Region
2/15/2023 11:11:30 AM
Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, long accused of inflaming Jewish-Arab tensions, has set his sights on one of the conflict's most sensitive issues: Palestinian prisoners.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/4/2023 8:07:52 PM
Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/25/2023 7:33:49 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has announced the release of 2,194 prisoners as per a presidential pardon on the occasion of the National Police Day.
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World
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International
1/4/2023 9:22:07 AM
Myanmar's junta announced an amnesty for 7,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day on Wednesday following a show of force in the capital, days after increasing democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi's jail term to 33 years.
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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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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
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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Region
10/17/2022 9:48:44 AM
Iran's judiciary raised the death toll Monday in a blaze at Tehran's notorious Evin prison, saying that at least eight prisoners were killed as protests continue nationwide.
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World
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Region
10/16/2022 1:00:45 PM
A towering blaze at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran's capital killed four inmates, the country's judiciary said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
10/6/2022 8:27:36 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a decree pardoning 1,557 prisoners at various correctional centres nationwide on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the 6 October 1973 War, the Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday.
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World
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Region
10/2/2022 7:10:04 PM
Israel is holding nearly 800 Palestinians without trial or charge, the highest number since 2008, an Israeli rights group said Sunday.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
9/20/2022 12:08:15 PM
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to swap 200 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges of the seven-month war, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told US television.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/30/2022 12:12:00 PM
The 19-member Board of Trustees responsible for preparing the national dialogue proposed by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in April is set to resume meetings.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/11/2022 4:16:38 PM
The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of inspection. Instead, men in uniform arrived and offered them amnesty, if they agreed to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.
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World
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Region
8/11/2022 2:54:04 PM
A Palestinian prisoner on a protracted hunger strike was moved Thursday from an Israeli jail to a hospital because of his worsening condition, the prisoner's wife said.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/4/2022 2:07:32 PM
U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week's deadly strike on a prison housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine.
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