Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners, now heading to US | Prison News
Release welcomed as ‘excellent’ news amid Nicaraguan government’s crackdown on opposition figures and critics. Nicaragua has released 222 inmates, many
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Iran supreme leader pardons ‘tens of thousands’ of prisoners | Protests News
Those released from prison include some arrested in recent anti-government protests. Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned or allowed a reduction
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Guantanamo detainee freed to Belize after 20 years in captivity | Human Rights News
Majid Khan, who was tortured by the CIA before his transfer to the US military facility in Cuba, says he
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US concerned as Sudan releases man convicted of slaying diplomat | Crime News
Abdelraouf Abuzeid was previously convicted in connection to a shooting that killed a USAID employee and his driver. The United
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Transgender rapist will not serve time in women’s jail: Sturgeon | Women News
Scotland’s first minister says a trans woman convicted of raping two women will not serve a sentence in the nation’s
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Israel releases second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Maher Younis, cousin of recently released Karim Younis, freed after four decades in Israeli prisons. The second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner,
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The World Cup, in Guantanamo | Prison
In 2022, we witnessed a World Cup unlike any other – a World Cup that was full of firsts, especially
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‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails | Prison News
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – When Ezeigwe Evaristus Chukwuebuka, a Nigerian man completed his 12-year sentence for financial fraud in
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Iran sentences Belgian national to 40 years in prison, 74 lashes | Prison News
Relations between Iran and Belgium have increasingly soured following the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in 2018 over bomb-plot allegations.
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Iran frees actress Taraneh Alidoosti jailed for backing protests | Protests News
Taraneh Alidoosti, the star of an Oscar-winning film, was jailed last month for criticising a crackdown on Mahsa Amini protests.
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