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World
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International
12/16/2021 8:09:24 PM
There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday.
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World
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Region
12/5/2021 8:25:13 PM
Israeli authorities freed a prominent Palestinian prisoner on Sunday, two weeks after striking a release deal that ended his marathon 131-day hunger strike, said a prisoner rights group.
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World
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Region
11/28/2021 11:45:56 AM
The US Navy has rescued two Iranian seamen who had been adrift for eight days on a fishing boat in Gulf waters, a statement said on Sunday.
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World
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Region
11/28/2021 10:58:20 AM
The United States under President Joe Biden is to resume on Monday indirect negotiations with Iran in Vienna -- but is far less optimistic than in the spring about the possibility of saving the Iranian nuclear deal.
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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
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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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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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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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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Region
10/13/2021 7:49:49 PM
At least 250 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel have begun a hunger strike to protest their relocation to isolated cells, officials said Wednesday.
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World
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International
9/29/2021 6:39:54 PM
Thirty prisoners were killed and 47 wounded in a battle between armed inmates aligned to rival gangs at a jail in Ecuador's largest city Tuesday, officials said.
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World
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Region
9/15/2021 1:02:20 PM
Tensions have been running high since six militants staged a dramatic escape from a high-security jail in northern Israel on September 6, via a tunnel dug under a sink
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World
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Region
9/11/2021 9:31:49 AM
The arrests moved Israel closer to closing an embarrassing episode that exposed deep flaws in its prison system and turned the fugitive prisoners into Palestinian heroes
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/8/2021 10:31:14 PM
The court reasoned that parole is granted to convicts who display good behaviour, which is something lacking in members of the Brotherhood since they used violence as a means to gain power
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World
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Region
9/8/2021 10:01:14 PM
The Palestinian prisoners group reported fires in Ketziot Prison, and there were media reports of more unrest
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World
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Region
9/6/2021 7:00:00 PM
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club identified the men as ranging in age from 26 to 49 years old, four of the prisoners had been serving life sentences
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World
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Region
7/31/2021 2:25:11 PM
The statement did not elaborate on the identity of the 2,825 prisoners who were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted
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Egypt
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Politics
7/20/2021 6:26:45 PM
Egyptian presidents traditionally issue pardons several times a year, usually on major national and religious holidays
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World
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International
7/15/2021 10:10:20 AM
This would be in return for the release of about 7,000 insurgent prisoners held in Afghanistan's jails
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