Search For "prisoner"
US, Australia urge cessation of violence in Myanmar, call for release of p
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): The US and Australia urged a cessation of violence in Myanmar and called for the release of political prisoners along with those arbitrarily detained by the military following the coup.
Read More
Delhi HC seeks status report from Tihar Jail on plea seeking protection to
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday sought a status report from the Tihar Jail prison authority indicating the steps taken to ensure safety to witnesses in connection with undertrial Ankit Gujjar death case inside the prison and also directed that the witnes
Read More
Women prisoners in Pakistan suffer in cubbyhole
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], September 12 (ANI): Women prisoners in Pakistan's Peshawar have been without a separate prison ever since the demolition of a British-era building, according to local media.
Read More
Four of six escaped Palestinian prisoners recaptured by Israeli police
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], September 12 (ANI): Israeli police recaptured four of the six escaped Palestinian prisoners who took advantage of underground passageways to slip away from a prison in Northern Israel.
Read More
Taliban kill brother of former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 10 (ANI): The Taliban took prisoner and then killed Rohullah Saleh, brother of former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh, media reports said.
Read More
Delhi HC transfers undertrial prisoner Ankit Gujjar's death case probe to
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday transferred probe into undertrial prisoner Ankit Gujjar's death case in Tihar jail to CBI and directed the investigation agency to file a status report after carrying out an investigation.
Read More
UK Foreign Secretary decries prison sentences for Belarusian Opposition fi
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 6 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday condemned the lengthy prison sentences handed to Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Maksim Znak by a Minsk court, and urged President Alexander Lukashenko's government to release all politica
Read More
Iran must halt execution of Kurdish prisoner: UN rights experts
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): The imminent execution of an Iranian Kurdish prisoner must be halted and his death sentence repealed, UN-appointed independent human rights experts said on Friday.
Read More
Delhi HC reserves order on plea related to alleged murder of undertrial pr
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved an order on a petition relating to the alleged murder recently of undertrial prisoner Ankit Gujjar in Tihar Jail.
Read More
Tibetan activists protest outside China's UK embassy on International Day
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], August 31 (ANI): Tibetan activist groups in the UK observed the International Day of the Disappeared in London on Tuesday by raising slogans outside the Chinese Embassy to 'Release Political Prisoners'.
Read More
Odisha's Directorate of prisons launches project 'kiran' to support women
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar [Odisha], August 24 (ANI): Directorate of prisons & Correctional services, Odisha in collaboration with an NGO launched project "KIRAN" to support women prisoners.
Read More
Taliban release 340 prisoners in Afghanistan Farah Province
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 21 (ANI): The Taliban have released 340 "political prisoners" in Farah province in western Afghanistan, Sputnik reported on Saturday.
Read More