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For the first time in 43 years Thursday, James Robert McClurkin saw the sky from outside prison walls. He breathed free air.

• 19 ноября 2016, 22:45

Fancy spending the night in a former military prison that is now a youth hostel with an artistic twist? In Slovenia you can.

• 16 августа 2016, 17:07

Chinese court sentenced a Christian pastor to 14 years in jail for embezzlement, after he opposed forced removal of crosses from churches.

• 29 февраля 2016, 15:39

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed news of the impending release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard after 30 years in a US prison.

• 29 июля 2015, 12:58

Boston bomber's friend Azamat Tazhayakov sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in the US.

• 09 июня 2015, 16:03

A Kazakh man has been handed out a three-month sentence for molestation of a policewoman in Dubai.

• 25 мая 2015, 10:38

Rakhat Aliyev's death has been officially confirmed by the Ministry of Justice of Austria. New details of the death are emerging.

• 24 февраля 2015, 23:29

Reports in the media suggest Kazakhstan's Rakhat Aliyev received death threats while awaiting trial in the Austrian prison of Josefstadt.

• 24 февраля 2015, 20:22

Kazakh political expert Yerlan Karin has presented his new book where he summed up his study of the terrorist organisation known Soldiers of the Caliphate.

• 11 января 2015, 15:26

Kazakhstani-Spanish The Forgotten of Karaganda documentary film has been awarded at the California Film Awards as the Best Documentary,

• 09 января 2015, 12:41

Five Guantanamo detainees have been released to Kazakhstan.

• 01 января 2015, 11:54

The two warring sides lined up the prisoners some 100 metres apart on an isolated stretch of highway in the no-man's land between their frontlines.

• 27 декабря 2014, 15:21

Campaigners from Amnesty International honoured two members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot who served 22 months in prison.

• 15 ноября 2014, 12:15

South African prosecutors said that their request to appeal Oscar Pistorius's manslaughter conviction and five-year prison sentence would be heard on December 9.

• 10 ноября 2014, 18:15

Russia will launch Europe's biggest prison in 2015 to replace one of its most notorious jails that once held revolutionary Leon Trotsky and Soviet-era dissidents.

• 18 октября 2014, 11:45

Italian citizen Flavio Sidagni who was released on parole in August will stay in Kazakhstan.

• 16 октября 2014, 14:54

Kazakhstani Senate has questioned the safety and security of electronic tagging devices.

• 06 октября 2014, 17:23

Kazakhstan has recently introduced changes to the Criminal Code. In this regard, the state will allocate $13 million for electronic tagging devices for monitoring convicts.

• 29 сентября 2014, 15:04

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and former Al-Qaeda spokesman was jailed for life after a US judge warned he remained a deadly threat to American citizens.

• 24 сентября 2014, 12:24

Kazakh student Dias Kadyrbayev has formally pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Boston bombings case two weeks before the trial.

• 25 августа 2014, 15:19