Search For "prison"
Daniel Pearl murder case: Pakistan's denial of justice exposed
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): Last month, in yet another outrage, Pakistan's Supreme Court freed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man responsible for luring Daniel Pearl to his death, from prison and sent him to a halfway house. The judges had connections to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), re
Read More
Deceased was attacked by 3 other jail inmates, Tihar officials inform Delh
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 7 (ANI): Tihar Jail authorities on Friday told the Delhi High Court that a deceased prisoner under trial at the facility was attacked by three others under trial prisoners (UTP) in November last year by an improvised sharp object.
Read More
Herbal Vatika at Delhi's Tihar jail imparts vocational training to inmates
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 7 (ANI): Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel on Saturday inaugurated a herbal vatika or garden at the Tihar jail that aims to provide vocational training to inmates so that they can earn a livelihood after release.
Read More
COVID-19: Delhi HC directs 3,499 undertrial prisoners to surrender befor
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 6 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has directed all the 3,499 Under Trial Prisoners (UTPs) who were granted interim bails amid COVID-19 under the various criteria laid down by the High Powered Committee, shall surrender before the concerned Jail Superintendent upon the ex
Read More
WHO incapable of holding China accountable for COVID-19: Dissident
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 6 (ANI): The chances of a deeper investigation on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and holding Beijing accountable will depend a great deal on Joe Biden administration, said Jianli Yang, a Chinese dissident and son of a former Communist Party leader, a former po
Read More
Teen sentenced to 6 months in detention centre for rioting during 2019 ant
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Hong Kong, March 3 (ANI): A 16-year-old student has been sentenced to up to six months in a detention centre becoming the first confessed rioter to avoid actual prison time since the 2019 social unrest.
Read More
In historic ruling, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy convicted of c
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 2 (ANI): Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and was sentenced to three years of prison by a French court.
Read More
Sarkozy to challenge prison sentence on corruption charges
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The court's verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was found guilty of corruption, will be challenged, the politician's lawyer Jacqueline Laffont said.
Read More
Jail guard, cleaning staff held for taking bribe in MP's Mhow
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 1 (ANI): The Indore Lokayukta Police on Monday arrested a guard and a cleaning staff of Mhow sub-jail for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a prisoner on the pretext of providing him with certain facilities.
Read More
Protest in Paris against Tibetan tour guide's death in Chinese prison
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], February 25 (ANI): The Tibetan community held a demonstration in Paris protesting against the torture of a Tibetan tour guide in a Chinese prison, which led to his death on February 6, 2021.
Read More
Baseless imprisonments surge in China's Xinjiang province: Human Rights Wa
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], February 24 (ANI): The Chinese government has increased its "groundless prosecutions" with long prison sentences for Uyghurs and other minority communities in recent years in China's Xinjiang province, according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Read More
Toolkit case: Disha Ravi released from Tihar Jail
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested for her involvement in sharing a 'toolkit' on social media in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest, has been released from Delhi's Tihar jail, prison officials confirmed on Tuesday.
Read More