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11/27/2021 4:29:14 PM
Iraqi security forces said they shot dead a convicted jihadist on Saturday as he tried to escape from a prison with two accomplices.
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11/23/2021 3:46:22 PM
Two Palestinian hunger strikers, including one who went without food for 131 days, on Monday suspended their strikes against Israel's controversial policy of detaining them without charge after reaching a deal that will allow them to go free in the coming months, a prisoner rights group said.
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11/19/2021 12:59:01 PM
Supporters of Hamas could face up to 14 years in prison if the British government succeeds in banning the group as a terrorist organisation, the Home Office said on Friday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
11/17/2021 8:08:48 PM
An Egyptian emergency state security misdemeanour court sentenced lawyer and former MP Ziad El-Eleimy to five years in prison on Wednesday for spreading false news on social media among other charges
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Africa
11/15/2021 8:44:17 PM
A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced four police officers to prison for manslaughter over the death of the son of a British aristocrat who was tortured and left for dead in a police cell.
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International
11/14/2021 3:20:12 PM
Pakistan has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country's territorial waters, an official said Sunday.
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Africa
11/14/2021 10:35:50 AM
Five Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia have been found guilty of killing seven civilians, with two sentenced to death and the other three given 39-year prison terms each, AMISOM has said
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
11/9/2021 8:43:15 PM
Video footage has emerged from surveillance cameras inside Israeli jails showing the brutal abuse of Palestinian prisoners, writes Mohamed Abu Shaar
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/3/2021 2:20:42 PM
The US administration apparently withheld $130 million of assistance “from our Egyptian allies allegedly on human rights concerns,” to pressure Egypt to release 16 prisoners that may include Muslim Brotherhood extremists, US Senator Ted Cruz said at the Senate earlier this week.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/2/2021 11:11:01 PM
Ahmed Morsy reports on Egypt’s first fully integrated correctional and rehabilitation facility
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/29/2021 2:16:07 PM
A thief who broadcast his face unawares to thousands of Facebook users while stealing a reporter's cellphone during a live stream last week was handed a one-year prison term, a Cairo court ruled on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/28/2021 6:29:41 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior organised on Thursday a tour for a number of diplomatic missions, international organisations, and foreign media correspondents at the newly constructed Wadi Al-Natroun Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre.
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International
10/27/2021 6:05:26 PM
U.S. authorities launched a new battle on Wednesday to make Julian Assange face American justice, telling British judges that if they agree to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any U.S. prison sentence he receives in his native Australia.
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10/26/2021 3:49:06 PM
Sudan's top general Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan says the deposed prime minister is being detained for own safety at the general's own house, not in a prison.
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International
10/26/2021 12:59:21 PM
Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, a major player in a 1979 coup who later became president in a landmark democratic election before ending his tumultuous political career in prison, died on Tuesday. He was 88.
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Region
10/24/2021 6:59:37 PM
The husband of UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five years in Iran, has gone on a hunger strike again after a court decided she has to spend another year in prison.
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World
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Region
10/23/2021 8:59:37 PM
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has granted pardons or commuted the sentences of more than 3,450 prisoners, his website reported Saturday.
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World
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International
10/23/2021 5:48:52 PM
Moscow on Saturday put a former prison inmate seeking asylum in France on a wanted list after he leaked harrowing videos of alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2021 1:45:55 PM
Gunmen have attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria, freeing dozens of inmates, an official told The Associated Press Saturday.
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Sports
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World
10/18/2021 3:23:33 PM
Bayern Munich defender Lucas Hernandez has until October 28 to enter prison "voluntarily" after he appeared before a Madrid court on Monday for violating a restraining order in 2017
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