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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was released from prison on Friday after spending 10 years behind bars, his wife said, but rights groups said he is still banned from travel for another 10 years. Badawi, who created and managed an online forum, was arres..
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced journalist Sedef Kabas to more than two years in prison after ruling that she insulted the president, despite a ruling by Europe's top rights court that the relevant law should be amended to safeguard free expr..
More than 200 prison inmates have been issued a special pardon by Oman's Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik. "His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, the Supreme Commander, issues a special pardon for a group of 229 prison inmates convicted in variou..
HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani issued an Amiri gesture pardoning a number of prisoners, on the occasion of the National Day of the State. Source: QNA ...
Kuwait released a group of prisoners on Sunday pardoned by the emir in an amnesty intended to defuse a political row, including Shi'ite Muslim Kuwaitis convicted in 2016 for spying for Iran and Lebanon's Iran-allied Hezbollah. The amnesty,..
Gunmen attacked a jail in Nigeria's Oyo State late on Friday and freed over 800 inmates by force, the third such major attack this year, prison service said in a statement on Saturday. The prison service said the attackers were heavily armed a..
Israeli police say four of the six men who escaped from a prison in Northern Israel on Monday have now been recaptured. The first two were arrested on Friday evening in Nazareth, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Gilboa prison where the brea..
BBC Israeli troops searching for six Palestinian militants who escaped from a high-security prison have reportedly detained several of their relatives. Five members of ...
REUTERS A Chinese businessman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison after admitting that he illegally exported marine technology with uses in anti-submarine warfare from the United States for the benefit of a Chinese military universit..
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