Tag: prisoners

Forces in Zawiya in western Libya on Wednesday released more than 100 captives taken from Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) to solidify...

Prisoners in a Ugandan jail overpowered their guards and 219 of them escaped with at least 15 guns, but two were killed after security...

Fifty-two inmates of a prison in north-eastern DR Congo city Bunia starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, according to the...

The rapid spread of coronavirus is piling pressure on criminal justice systems globally and seen a flood of prisoner releases, with the US, Canada...

A Saudi-led military coalition said it freed 200 prisoners from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in a move that could further efforts to end the...

Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 560 prisoners, the majority accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, two judicial sources said. Of those pardoned, 482...

An offensive by eastern forces on Libyan capital Tripoli stalled in the face of strong resistance and the internationally recognised government said it took...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 3477 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, many of them imprisoned for debt, the interior ministry...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 712 prisoners, the state news agency MENA said with security sources saying many of those freed...

Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned more than 330 people, many of them youths jailed for demonstrating in recent years. He told...

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has ordered the release of all political prisoners in the country, state news agency SUNA said. The decision came...

Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa pardoned up to 3,000 prisoners, including most female inmates, in his first act of clemency, a government...

The law enforcement agencies have nabbed nine officials from the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Correctional Services for illegally...

Sudanese authorities said more than 80 political prisoners would be released from jails in Khartoum, a week after the country appointed a...

A Nigerian court released 475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram for rehabilitation, the justice ministry said, as the country's biggest legal...

Ethiopia will release 746 prisoners, including a journalist and a senior opposition official jailed for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, the attorney...

A South Sudanese rebel group released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to yhe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 502 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday including prominent businessman Hesham Talaat Moustafa, according to...

Gambia's high court released a further 12 political prisoners on Tuesday, their lawyer said, adding to hopes of an end to years...

Suspected Islamist militants freed 93 prisoners during an attack on a jail in the central Mali town of Niono early on Tuesday,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 82 prisoners, mostly university students jailed for protesting, state news agency MENA said. Sisi promised in October...

Gunmen attacked a bank and a prison in the southern Mali town of Banamba in the early hours of Monday, freeing 21...

Egypt arrested a prominent journalist and human rights advocate on Sunday after he was questioned by military intelligence over a report he...

An Egyptian police colonel was sentenced to a reduced five years in jail on Thursday in a re-trial over the deaths of...

The pilot project for electronic monitoring of parolees and probationers from South African prisons has been implemented this month. The project seeks to...

Israel bused 430 Palestinian prisoners under heavy guard to a holding facility in the Negev desert in preparation for them to be...

The parents of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit folded their protest tent and Palestinian families awaited word on whether their loved ones would...