Prison
- 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 near Silaiman…
- 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), Ali Bhatt…
- 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 back to…
- 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 bid adieu…
- News
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. Fifty-three-year-old Rocco…
- News
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 in which…
- News
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 over accusations…
- 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 the third…
- News
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 without any…
- 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 Thursday, three…
- 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 20 months…
- 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 suspects were…
- 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 on Friday.…
- Middle East
Egypt inmates dread noose as executions rise under Sisi
Cairo: After years of anxiously waiting in cramped prison cells, appointments with the noose can come fast to the many on Egypt’s death row. Leila’s brother Amr was hanged in February. The…
