Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 15 (ANI): Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra 'Teni' on Wednesday lost his temper and hurled abuses at a journalist when asked about charges against his son Ashish, who is in jail in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incide
Hong Kong, December 13 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 13-month imprisonment on Monday for participating in last year's banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil.
Khowai (Tripura) [India], December 12 (ANI): After spending more than 10 months in a jail in Bangladesh, two Indian nationals from Tripura returned safely to their homeland on Sunday.
Lahore [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): The provincial Home Ministry in Pakistan's Punjab has highlighted that inmates in Lahore are getting drugs from court lockups, directing the authorities to take necessary actions in this regard, reported local media.
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Pakistan's provincial Punjab government and prosecution have decided to conduct the case trial of the suspects arrested in the brutal lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in jail, reported local media.
New York [US], December 10 (ANI): As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Agartala (Tripura) [India], December 9 (ANI): A local court on Thursday sentenced three senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPIM) leaders to two years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a four years old district judge assault case at Belonia under South Tripura district.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 9 (ANI): Advocate-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, who was recently granted default bail by the Bombay High Court in the Bhima Koregaon case was released from Byculla jail in Mumbai on Thursday.
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): A US-based rights group has awarded journalist Zhang Zhan, who was jailed by Chinese authorities for reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Godda (Jharkhand) [India], December 9 (ANI): The District and Sessions Court on Wednesday convicted three youths accused of gang rape and sentenced two to 30 years imprisonment and another to seven years of imprisonment.
Beijing [China], December 8 (ANI): Social media users in China have criticised the state-owned media, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), over its failure to report on a jailed Shanghai citizen who raped women and held them captive in a brothel for the rich people.
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 7 (ANI): Indonesia seeks to reopen its diplomatic mission in Afghanistan in the near future, said Abdul Kadir Jailani, Indonesia Foreign Ministry's director-general for the Asia Pacific and Africa, on Monday.