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MP: Prisoners of Indore Central Jail make eco-friendly idols for Ganesh Ch
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], August 24 (ANI): With the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi around the corner, prisoners in Indore Central Jail are making eco-friendly Ganesh idols.
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'Trap Queen' rapper Fetty Wap faces five years in prison for drug traffick
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): Rapper Fetty Wap confessed his involvement in a major drug trafficking ring that transported cocaine from the West Coast to Long Island in his plea deal on Monday, which includes a mandatory five-year prison term.
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UN calls for release of Saudi woman sentenced to 34 years in prison for tw
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 20 (ANI): The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a 34-year prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman charged with aiding dissidents.
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China uses psychiatric hospitals to punish activists: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 18 (ANI): Chinese police and government agents send petitioners and activists to psychiatric wards for medically-unnecessary compulsory treatment, where some languish for years, according to a report by Safeguard Defenders.
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US on prisoner swap: Brittney Griner is being wrongfully detained, should
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 16 (ANI): The US on Monday condemned the imprisonment of Olympic gold medalist and popular American women's basketball player Brittney Griner sentence who was sentenced to nine years in jail by Russia last week.
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Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi jailed for six more years
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], August 16 (ANI): Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been convicted of corruption charges on Monday, adding six more years to her prison sentence.
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CM Gehlot approves proposal to release 51 prisoners on Independence Day
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], August 12 (ANI): Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday approved a proposal to release 51 prisoners serving sentences in various jails of the state on August 15, 2022, giving a special pardon for good conduct, said an official statement.
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Culture Ministry to organize spiritual programmes in 75 prisons across cou
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): On the occasions of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Maharshi Aurobindo and the 75th Year of Independence, the Ministry of Culture is commemorating the life and philosophy of Shri Aurobindo by undertaking spiritual programmes in 75 prisons across the nation
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Nalini moves SC seeking release
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts who was serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, on Thursday, approached the Supreme Court, seeking release from the prison-like fellow convict AG Perariva
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US informs Russian Embassy of Vinnik's arrest, diplomats to provide assist
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has informed the Russian Embassy in Washington of the arrest of Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, and diplomats stand ready to provide him with legal assistance, the diplomatic mission announced on Friday.
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US, Russia ready to hold talks over prisoner swap after Griner conviction
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 5 (ANI): Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the country was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with Washington at the presidential level right after the US basketball star Brittney Griner was jailed over drug charges.
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Threat to Arpita Mukherjee's life, test food, water before serving to her
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 5 (ANI): Arpita Mukherjee's advocate on Friday, while claiming a threat to her life, pleaded before the court to get her Division 1 prisoner category.
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