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The Kazakh teenager, arrested on charges of sexual harassment, was released on bailed but has to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet.

• 20 декабря 2013, 12:50

The Russian Supreme Court has ordered a review of the guilty verdicts handed to two members of punk band Pussy Riot, three months before the pair are due to be released from prison, it said Thursday.

• 12 декабря 2013, 16:51

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has ratified the treaty with China on transferring Kazakhstani convicts to Kazakhstan.

• 25 ноября 2013, 14:51

Penal Reform International will change the lives of prisoners in Kazakhstan, helping the country in its effort to humanize the penal system.

• 16 ноября 2013, 02:12

A former FBI agent was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for disclosing confidential national security information about a foiled bomb plot to an Associated Press reporter.

• 15 ноября 2013, 10:58

Omar Khadr, the Canadian "child soldier" held for a decade at Guantanamo, appealed his terror conviction Friday.

• 09 ноября 2013, 18:06

Iran's newly elected moderate president said Thursday he hoped for the freedom of more prisoners after the recent release of prominent reformists.

• 28 сентября 2013, 07:00

A court sentenced the teenage son of a Chinese general to 10 years in jail for gang rape on Thursday, court authorities said, after his trial threw a spotlight on the lives of China's elite.

• 26 сентября 2013, 11:31

Smoking is set to be prohibited in all prisons in England and Wales over fears of that staff may bring compensation claims.

• 20 сентября 2013, 19:00

A 485-pound (220-kilogram) convicted murderer who escaped execution after his lawyers argued he was too fat to be put to death has died in prison.

• 28 июля 2013, 18:31

The force-feeding of hunger striking inmates at the US prison in Guantanamo clearly violates medical ethics and international law.

• 25 июля 2013, 18:29

One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot on Wednesday asked again to be released on parole after serving almost a year in prison.

• 25 июля 2013, 11:06

The document is aimed at creating mechanism for prevention of tortures and other forms of illicit treatment to people in places of confinement.

• 08 июля 2013, 12:35

Every fifth prisoner serving a sentence in East-Kazakhstan oblast is HIV-positive.

• 31 мая 2013, 14:27

The UN General Assembly condemned President Bashar al-Assad's "escalation" of the Syrian war on Wednesday as rebels battled to free inmates from a prison in the key city of Aleppo.

• 16 мая 2013, 18:33

Guantanamo officials have warned detainees at the widely reviled US prison that they will have to be patted down thoroughly each time they meet their lawyers.

• 12 мая 2013, 13:46

Nigerian gunmen on Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and springing 105 inmates.

• 09 мая 2013, 18:40

Guantanamo Bay prisoner Obaydullah says he is "losing all hope" after joining a widening hunger strike in February to protest his indefinite detention at the US military jail.

• 04 мая 2013, 18:24

President Barack Obama may name a new envoy as a first step toward honoring his renewed pledge to close Guantanamo Bay, but the path to shuttering the "war on terror" camp seems as intractable as ever.

• 02 мая 2013, 15:15

More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention.

• 22 апреля 2013, 18:21