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TN: Manithaneya Jananayaga Katchi holds protest demanding release of long
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Manithaneya Jananayaga Katchi cadres held a protest in Triplicane near Icehouse mosque, Chennai demanding the release of lifetime Muslim prisoners in Tamil Nadu.
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"No prisoner swap before end of war": Hamas
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that the issue of prisoner swaps won't be addressed until the end of the war, The Times of Israel reported.
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Nikki Haley criticises Blinken for saying no link between Israel attack, r
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Blinken had previously responded to Republican criticisms of the deal made by the Biden administration with Iran, which involved unfreezing USD6 billion in funds in exchange for five US prisoners held in Iran.
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Mumbai: Police constable arrested for bringing drugs for prisoners
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A police constable posted in Arthur Road Jail, Mumbai, was arrested for delivering drugs to prisoners on Sunday.
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Delhi Prisons get devices from US-based firm to detect hidden mobiles
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
With an aim to improve security inside the Tihar Jail, the administration has purchased 10 nonlinear junctions from a US-based firm, which will be able to detect mobile phones or SIM cards from the prisoners lodged in the Jail.
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Joe Biden thanks Qatar’s emir for US-Iran prisoner swap deal
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden has thanked Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for his help in mediating a landmark prisoner swap deal with Iran, Al Jazeera reported.
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Uttarakhand govt to hike minimum wages of prisoners employed in prison lab
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In the first meeting of the Jail Development Board at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Uttarakhand government has decided to increase the minimum wage rates of prisoners employed as labour in prisons, said an official statement from the govern
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State of emergency declared in Israeli prison over missing bars
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
According to the Israeli Prison Service, the missing bars were one of three layers, and that the other two layers were intact. The IPS added that there was no evidence of cutting or displacement. The discovery was made during a routine inspection.
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'Ganja', cell phones among contraband most frequently smuggled into prison
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
'Ganja' and cell phones are the common contraband items that are most frequently smuggled into the prisons among others, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs raised alarm in its recent report.
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Pakistan court allows remission to prisoners convicted in drug cases befor
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The ruling came during the hearing of three petitions filed by convicts who challenged the withholding of remissions to them by the authorities of respective prisons in the light of amendments made in the Control of Narcotics Substance Act (CNSA), 1997, last year.
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States should lay thrust on "women-only prison and women-only staff”, reco
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended that all state governments should have a motto of "women-only prison and women-only staff” to ensure that the fundamental and basic human rights of women prisoners are not violated
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Five Americans freed from detention in swap deal with Iran return to US
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Five Americans who were freed from Iranian detention as part of a wider deal with Tehran, landed in the United State, CNN reported.
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