Tag: Jail
Around 1,000 detained protesters in Iran unrest freed, 300 still in...
LONDON: The Iranian authorities have released most of the people arrested during December’s anti-government protests but around 300 remain in jail facing charges, Iran’s...
Russian student sentenced to four years jail for trying to join IS
VOLOGDA: A Russian female student, sentenced to four and a half years behind bars for trying to join the Islamic State, has repented and...
Two terrorists sentenced to jail by ATC
SARGODHA: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Tariq Mehmood Zargham on Wednesday sentenced 28 years imprisonment to two accused who were involved in terrorist activities.
The court sources...
Sushma Swaraj to grant visa to parents of Pakistani boy detained...
New Delhi: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday an extended visa to parents of a juvenile Pakistan national who has been lodged in Amritsar jail...
Three former SHOs convicted for illegal detention of Zulfikar Mirza’s aide...
BADIN: Three senior police officials in Badin were sentenced to six months jail each on Saturday for the illegal detention of estranged PPP leader...
Six Britons from anti-piracy ship freed from Indian jail
CHENNAI: Six Britons who were among 35 crew on a US-operated anti-piracy ship serving jail terms for illegal possession of weapons were released from an...
Suspected killer of MQM activist sent to prison
A civil judge in Hyderabad on Thursday sent a suspect accused of killing an MQM activist Dr Naushad Aijaz to jail, after it turned down the...
Jail ‘trip’ makes Qavi come up with prison reforms
MULTAN: Mufti Abdul Qavi on Wednesday proposed a five-point agenda and an executive body for the resolution of problems of jail inmates after he...
Arrested Saudi princes sleeping on floor of their Ritz-Carlton Hotel ‘jail’
RIYADH - Their detention centre may be the five-star Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, but the Saudi princes arrested in the high-profile...
SHC CJ livid over lenient treatment of influential criminals
KARACHI: Expressing his annoyance over discrimination with poor inmates in prisons, Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M Shaikh said influential or rich...
Jail admin provides Sharjeel Memon with special facilities
KARACHI: Former minister and imprisoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Inam Memon has been provided with various facilities despite being jailed for corruption charges.
Sharjeel...
Spain High Court jails Catalan separatist leaders
A Spanish court has ordered two powerful Catalan separatists to be detained, threatening a further escalation of the political crisis on Tuesday as both...
PITB launches ‘PMIS’ at district jail
LAHORE: Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has launched the first ever pilot project “Prison Management Information System” (PIMS) at district jail to automate jail records...
Top Turkey journalist released after almost year in jail
ISTANBUL: An Istanbul court on Monday ordered the release of leading Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel in the controversial trial of staff from the Cumhuriyet opposition...
90 ‘dangerous’ prisoners transferred out of Karachi jail
KARACHI: The jail authorities have transferred 90 dangerous prisoners to other jails in the country, fearing that the inmates were in contact with a...
Israeli soldier gets 18 months’ jail for killing wounded Palestinian attacker
A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Tuesday, in a show of...
More than 150 inmates escape in Philippine jail raid
More than 150 inmates of a southern Philippine jail escaped when suspected Muslim rebels stormed the dilapidated facility in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday,...
