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 interior minister said on Tuesday. Judicial officials have…
VOLOGDA: A Russian female student, sentenced to four and a half years behind bars for trying to join the Islamic State, has repented and regrets her choice, Russian Human Rights Ombudsperson Tatyana…
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 said that the Jauhrabad police team had…
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 since May 2013 reported India.com. Responding to Pakistani…
BADIN: Three senior police officials in Badin were sentenced to six months jail each on Saturday for the illegal detention of estranged PPP leader Zulfikar Mirza’s aide in 2015. Senior Civil Judge…
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 Indian prison on Tuesday after their court acquittal.…
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 request filed by police to send him on…
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 was granted bail in Qandeel Baloch’s murder case.…
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 purge by King Salman bin Abdul Aziz on…
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 prisoners are hospitalised without approval while underprivileged ones do not…
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 Memon faces trial in a corruption case…
A Spanish court has ordered two powerful Catalan separatists to be detained, threatening a further escalation of the political crisis on Tuesday as both sides refuse to budge in their high-stakes standoff…
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 and manage the information of inmates. Reviewing the…
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 newspaper but ruled that four other detained suspects…
KARACHI: The jail authorities have transferred 90 dangerous prisoners to other jails in the country, fearing that the inmates were in contact with a terrorist network outside the jail and could escape…
A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment on Tuesday, in a show of leniency that drew Palestinian outrage after one of…
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, killing one guard, authorities said. The attack added…
