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Egypt - Courts & Law
6/14/2022 7:31:46 PM
Prominent human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced on Tuesday the release of 10 pre-trial detainees who had been imprisoned on charges of joining a terrorist group, publishing and spreading false news and statements.

World - Region
6/7/2022 10:08:52 PM
Iran has carried out a mass execution of 12 inmates at a prison in its southeast, an NGO said on Tuesday, as concern grows over the rising number of executions in the Islamic republic.

Al-Ahram Weekly - Egypt
6/2/2022 7:07:00 PM
Former president of opposition Dostour Party Khaled Dawoud tells Al-Ahram Weekly the recent release of dozens of political prisoners will contribute to the success of the political dialogue initiated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi six weeks ago.

Egypt - Courts & Law
5/29/2022 5:29:47 PM
Egypt is expected to release a group of prisoners via a presidential pardon within around 24 hours, said Mohamed Abdel-Aziz — a member of the country’s newly reactivated Presidential Pardon Committee.

War in Ukraine - Military
5/25/2022 12:33:19 PM
Moscow said Wednesday it would be "premature" to consider a prisoner swap with Kyiv before Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered to Russian troops stand trial.

War in Ukraine - Humanitarian
5/22/2022 12:04:00 PM
With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.

War in Ukraine - Diplomacy
5/21/2022 10:35:32 PM
Moscow will consider exchanging prisoners from Ukraine's Azov battalion for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin, a Russian negotiator said on Saturday.

War in Ukraine - Military
5/19/2022 10:01:07 PM
Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters who made their stand inside Mariupol's bombed-out steel plant surrendered, bringing the total to over 1,700, Russia said Thursday, amid international fears about the fate of the prisoners in Moscow's hands.

War in Ukraine - Military
5/17/2022 7:05:18 PM
Russia said Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered after staging a last stand at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, prompting Kyiv to call for a prisoner exchange.

Al-Ahram Weekly - Egypt
5/15/2022 3:42:00 PM
While political forces welcomed President Al-Sisi’s call for dialogue, they insisted the Muslim Brotherhood be excluded.

Egypt - Politics
5/14/2022 9:28:30 PM
Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said in a statement that it has received a petition signed by 500 Egyptian women urging the admission of jailed "prisoner of consience" and hunger-striker Alaa Abdel-Fattah to the prison's hospital in order to be placed under medical observation.

Egypt - Politics
5/10/2022 9:44:35 PM
The Presidential Pardon Committee announced in a statement on Tuesday that it will issue a list of tens of prisoners for presidential pardons soon.

War in Ukraine - Humanitarian
5/6/2022 8:10:33 PM
Over 40 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians captured by Russia, among them 11 women and a cleric, have been freed in a new prisoner exchange, Kyiv said Friday.

World - Region
5/6/2022 2:20:42 PM
The Red Cross said Friday that a plane carrying Yemeni prisoners held by the Saudi-led coalition has arrived in the southern city of Aden, as a truce between the warring parties enters its second month.

Egypt - Politics
5/4/2022 4:29:17 PM
Deputy chairperson of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Mohamed Anwar Esmat El-Sadat issued a statement on Tuesday indicating that the issue of political prisoners in Egypt will be “closed” in the near future.

World - Region
5/3/2022 3:48:00 PM
Germany's top court said Tuesday that it has rejected the appeal of a former member of Syria's secret police who was convicted last year of facilitating the torture of prisoners in his home country.

Egypt - Courts & Law
4/30/2022 11:13:34 PM
Egypt’s newly reactivated Presidential Pardon Committee has finished preparing a new list of prisoners who will be pardoned on the occasion of Eid El-Fitr, an official statement read on Saturday.

War in Ukraine - Diplomacy
4/27/2022 11:02:36 PM
Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it's unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed on Wednesday will affect the status of the WNBA star.

Egypt - Politics
4/27/2022 5:12:12 PM
Egyptian authorities announced on Wednesday the release of 3,273 inmates with a presidential pardon on the occasion of Sinai Liberation day, which falls on 25 April.

War in Ukraine - Diplomacy
4/27/2022 3:05:20 PM
Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, a senior U.S. official and the Russian foreign ministry said.

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