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2,340 prisoners test positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 22 (ANI): As many as 2,340 prisoners and 519 jail staff tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra till Wednesday, as per the state prison department.
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Delhi HC seeks compliance report regarding implementation of E-prison modu
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Principal District and Sessions Judge and DG Prisons to file a compliance report regarding the implementation of E-prison module in the national capital.
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Western Railway extends services to 700 trains, including 2 ladies' specia
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police and the Director General of Prisons, Madhya Pradesh after taking suo motu cognizance about the allegations made by women, who accused five po
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NHRC notices to MP Chief Secy, DGP over woman's allegations of lock-up gan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police and the Director General of Prisons, Madhya Pradesh after taking suo motu cognizance about the allegations made by women, who accused five po
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US politicians urge Egyptian president to release activists imprisoned ill
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], October 19 (ANI): More than 50 politicians of the United States have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release activists, journalists, lawyers, and prisoners of conscience detained illegally in Egyptian prisons.
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HC asks prison dept to prepare updated list of cases against convict in Be
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Department of Prisons, Delhi to prepare an updated list of the number of cases pending against Jagtar Singh Hawara, a convict in the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
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UP Govt orders aggressive COVID-19 testing in prisons amid rise in cases
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 29 (ANI): The Prisons Department of the Uttar Pradesh government has asked all District Magistrates (DMs), Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) of the state to go in for aggressive COVID-19 testing and take nec
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Tihar DG Prisons tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): Director General (Prisons), Tihar, Sandeep Goel has tested positive for coronavirus, jail officials said on Friday.
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2,061 inmates, 421 jail staff test COVID-19 positive in Maharashtra prison
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 24 (ANI): As many as 2,061 inmates and 421 jail staff have been tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra prisons so far, according to the state Prison Department on Wednesday.
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As of Dec 2019, 4.78 lakh prisoners in 1,350 jails across country: MHA
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): About 4,78,600 prisoners were locked up in close to 1,350 prisons across the country as of December 2019 as opposed to the maximum capacity of 4,03,739, according to the Union Home Ministry on Monday.
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Uyghur detention facilities found in Xinjiang's Turpan, where Disney's Mul
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [DC], September 9 (ANI): Detailed locations of as many as 15 detention camps for Uyghurs have been unearthed in Turpan city of the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang, the region where several scenes of Disney's new film 'Mulan' were filmed, according to a Washington-based Uyg
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Pakistan's prison report highlights massive scale of mistreatment of women
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 07 (ANI): Pakistan's Human Rights Ministry report highlighted the poor conditions of women in prisons as well as the massive scale of mistreatment meted out to them in jails and the need for broad and sustained reform, said US-based NGO Human Right Watch's Asia direc
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