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Protesters face upto 20 yrs prison under new law
Nay Pyi Taw : Myanmar’s military has warned anti-coup protesters across the country that they could face up to 20 years in prison if they obstruct the armed forces. Long…
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Middle East
Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist released from prison
Riyadh: Loujain al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights campaigners, was released on Wednesday after spending over 1,000 days in prison for what critics have called as politically-motivated…
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Technology
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison for stealing $10m
San Francisco: A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for 18 felonies related to his scheme to defraud Microsoft of more than $10 million in…
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India
‘After 23 years in prison, I am in another jail’
By MAQBOOL MAJID Srinagar: Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was acquitted of all charges and released from a jail in Rajasthan in July last year after…
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World
13 killed in Afghan prison attack
Kabul: At least 13 people were killed and 42 others injured in an attack on a prison in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city that continued on Monday after it began the previous…
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The ex-Trump lawyer released from prison
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has been released from prison after a judge ruled that he was sent back to jail in retaliation for writing a tell-all…
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Featured News
Indian prisons may turn into COVID-19 hotspots
Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain It was after a long struggle that Safoora Zargar got released from jail, on humanitarian grounds. As the pandemic rages on in India, Russia…
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NRIs Corner
Dubai sentences Indian cleaner to prison for stealing watches
Dubai: A Dubai court has sentenced an Indian cleaner to one year in jail after he was found guilty of stealing as many as 86 expensive watches, worth over 8.3…
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World
Khaleda Zia completes 2 years in prison
Dhaka: As former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Saturday completed two years in prison, members and activists of her Bangladesh National Party (BNP) were losing hope of her release…
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Syria
Displaced Syrians start new year in abandoned prison
IDLIB: Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds…
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World
18 dead in 2nd Honduran prison clash in 48 hrs
Tegucigalpa: At least 18 inmates were killed in a clash between rival gangs inside a jail near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, just two days after 18 prisoners were killed…
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Maldives ex-prez sentenced to five years in prison
Male: Maldives former President Abdulla Yameen was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison with a fine of USD 5 million. The Maldives Criminal Court…
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Hollywood
Felicity Huffman freed from prison
Washington: Actor Felicity Huffman has been released from the prison after being behind the bars for 11 days. According to People magazine, the 56-year-old star left the Federal Correctional Institution…
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Crime and Accident
Death in prison increased by 5.49 % in 2017 against 2015
New Delhi: The number of deaths in prisons has increased marginally from 1,584 in 2015 to 1,671 in 2017, having surged by 5.49 per cent during 2017, the National Crime…
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Bangalore News
Karnataka: 37 knives, contraband seized from Bengaluru prison
Bengaluru: A raid was conducted by the City Crime Branch at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru on Wednesday. According to an official, 37 knives and daggers, cannabis and pipes…
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Trump takes knife to prison yard
Washington: Washington resembles a bullpen where a verbal shell game is on. This evening Donald Trump fighting his accusers in what has become a brutal cage match took the knife…
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Nawaz Sharif continues to have AC, TV in prison
Islamabad [Pakistan]: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continues to have an air conditioner and television among other facilities in his prison cell, as recommended by his medical board, the…
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Crime and Accident
Man gets 27 years prison term for raping minor
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India]: A local court on Friday sentenced a man to 27 years in prison and fined him Rs 12,000 for raping a minor girl in Nedumkulam area…
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India
Muslims acquitted in terror case after 23 years in prison
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has acquitted six Muslim men in the 1996 Samleti blast case after they spent twenty-three years in prison, news reports said. Latif Ahmed Baja (42),…
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India
Prison food, friends, Man steals to return to prison life
New Delhi: Three times meal a day and prison buddies turned out to be the best time ever for a 52-year-old who stole a bike and petrol only to return…
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Hollywood
Bill Cosby adopts healthy lifestyle in prison
Washington: Bill Cosby who is serving a three-to-ten year sentence in prison for drugging and molesting a woman in 2004 has adopted a healthy lifestyle. The 81-year old comedian has…
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Italian drug lord Rocco Morabito escapes from Uruguay prison
Montevideo [Uruguay]: An Italian mafia boss and drug kingpin has escaped from prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, the Uruguayan Ministry of Interior said on Monday.…
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Man shares Christchurch attack video; jailed
Wellington: A New Zealand court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 21 months in prison for sharing the livestream video of the March 15 attacks at the two Christchurch mosques…
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Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi dies in courtroom
Cairo [Egypt]: Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi breathed his last on Monday after fainting in a courtroom during a trial session, state media reported. The 67-year-old was at the session…
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Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif not allowed to meet family even on Eid
Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday criticised the Imran Khan government for not allowing the family of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to meet him in jail even on…
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Turkey frees former NASA scientist after 2 years in prison
Ankara [Turkey]: Turkey on Wednesday evening freed a former American NASA scientist, who was sentenced to over seven years in prison on terrorism charges, three years ago. The release came…
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World
‘American Taliban’ to be freed after 17 years in US jail
Washington: An Islamic terrorist, who came to be infamously known as the “American Taliban” after his 2001 capture in Afghanistan is set to be released from a US prison on…
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Middle East
Turkey doctors get prison terms for criticising Syria offensive
Ankara:Eleven members of Turkey’s leading medical association were sentenced to prison terms on Friday over criticisms of a military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria last year. They were given…
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Middle East
Suspected UAE spy commits suicide in Istanbul prison
Istanbul: One of the two men, suspected of spying for the United Arab Emirates, committed suicide in an Istanbul prison on Monday, according to Turkey’s state-run media agency. The two…
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Middle East
53 people rescued from Taliban prison in Afghanistan
Zabul [Afghanistan]: The Afghan National Defence and Security Forces freed at least 53 people from a Taliban prison in an operation in Daichopan here, the Afghan Ministry of Defence said…
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