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

28 September 2013

China court jails general's son for decade over gang rape 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 September 2013

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

20 September 2013

US convict who was 'too fat to execute' dies in jail 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 July 2013

Force-feeding of Gitmo inmates is unethical: US doctor The force-feeding of hunger striking inmates at the US prison in Guantanamo clearly violates medical ethics and international law.

25 July 2013

Jailed Pussy Riot punk asks again for parole 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 July 2013

Nazarbayev signs anti-torture law The document is aimed at creating mechanism for prevention of tortures and other forms of illicit treatment to people in places of confinement.

08 July 2013

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

31 May 2013

UN assembly slams Assad 'escalation' in Syria war 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 May 2013

Guantanamo prisoners face body search: lawyer 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 May 2013

Nigerian Islamists attack town, kill 55: army 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 May 2013

Guantanamo prisoner speaks of despair, hunger strike 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 May 2013

Obama eyes Guantanamo envoy but closure path thorny 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 May 2013

Half of Guantanamo on hunger strike: US official 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 April 2013

Guantanamo hunger strike grows to 52: official More Guantanamo detainees have joined a growing hunger strike at the reviled US military prison, with nearly a third of the 166 war-on-terror suspects participating.

18 April 2013

US protesters demand closure of Guantanamo Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month.

12 April 2013

Kazakhstan Prosecutor General invites Germans to visit prisons Kazakhstan Prosecutor General Askhat Daulbayev met with German ambassador to Kazakhstan Guido Herz.

09 April 2013

Kazakhstan to introduce electronic bracelets in 2014 Kazakhstan plans to start using electronic bracelets in 2014.

02 April 2013

Guatanamo hunger strikers ready for death - lawyer His body ravaged and weakened by a 50-day hunger strike staged in protest at alleged mistreatment of Korans at Guantanamo jail, Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab has a message for his loved ones.

30 March 2013

Lawyers demand US show steps toward closing Guantanamo Lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo prison called for the US to show concrete steps towards closing the facility on Tuesday, citing a "humanitarian crisis" at the controversial jail.

14 March 2013

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