Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday freed eight to 10 Afghan Taliban prisoners at the request of peace negotiators to help boost the troubled peace and reconciliation process in war-torn Afghanistan, official sources said. The prisoners, all junior cadres of the Taliban, were freed in response to a request from Afghan High Peace Council chief Salahuddin Rabbani, who arrived in Islamabad with a delegation on Monday for talks with Pakistans top...
04:20 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Colombo: None of the seven Indian prisoners in Sri Lanka's main Welikada jail was affected by the riot that left 27 inmates dead and nearly 50 people, including security personnel, injured, officials said on Saturday. Sarath Dissanayake, the External Affairs Ministry spokesman, said he was informed by the Ministry of Prison Reforms that prisoners of foreign nationalities had not been affected. A total of 27 inmates were killed and nearly...
04:13 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year, has complained that he is being held in inhumane conditions and is being denied freedom of expression, his lawyer said Friday. "He has written a long complaint that he is being held in a section with particularly high security," Tord Jordet told The Associated Press. "He...
01:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Colombo: A major riot at a prison in Sri Lanka's capital killed at least 27 inmates and injured 42 others, while police said on Saturday that they have arrested seven prisoners who had managed to escape. The riot started after authorities launched a search for drugs within the prison, and the inmates turned against the operatives of the police's Special Task Force (STF). Prisons Minister Chandrasiri Gajadeera in a statement...
01:27 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Patna: Initiating a unique experiment, the Bihar government has decided to set up a gymnasium and a library in all its jails to promote physical and mental health of prisoners. "The jail department has released money for setting up a gym and a library in all the eight central jails and 31 districts prisons across Bihar," Director General, Prisons, Anand Kishore told PTI on Saturday. He said setting up gym...
02:27 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Company board member, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison for feeding inside information about board dealings with a billionaire hedge fund owner who was his friend. ...
09:33 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New York: It's a fall from grace for a man who had built himself a reputation as a humanitarian. Fallen Wall Street tycoon Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday and a five million dollar fine was imposed for securities fraud and insider trading, the judge, refusing to be lenient despite appeals from influential people like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Kofi Annan. In the end,...
06:38 PM, Oct 25, 2012
The 1962 Sino-Indian conflict claimed the lives of 5,000 Indian soldiers while several others faced the humiliation of being taken prisoners by the Chinese Army. Brigadier AJS Behl describes the seven months that he spent in a Chinese prison camp as a prisoner of war. Brigadier Behl was a 2nd Lieutenant in 1962. He was taken prisoner by the Chinese near Bum La in Arunachal Pradesh. ...
10:04 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Dallas: A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison by a judge who described his decision as a necessary punishment for a brutal, shocking attack. Elizabeth Escalona did not immediately react as State District Judge Larry Mitchell pronounced the sentence at the end of a five-day hearing. Prosecutor Eren Price, who originally offered Escalona...
01:40 AM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: A Pakistani court will on Monday hear Sarabjit Singh's lawyer's plea seeking permission to meet the Indian prisoner. Pakistani officials had refused to allow Sarabjit Singh's lawyer to meet him in a Lahore jail after the counsel returned from India carrying letters and personal items for the Indian prisoner. Awais Sheikh, the lawyer of the Indian prisoner, had informed this to Sarabjit's daughter Swapandeep via email on September...
08:45 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court rejected YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea on Friday. Jagan Mohan has been in Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad ever since his arrest nearly four months ago in connection with the disproportionate assets case. The CBI has said that it will take three more months to complete the investigation against him. There are nine cases against Jagan. YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi had...
01:07 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Jalandhar: Pakistani officials have refused to allow Sarabjit Singh's lawyer to meet him in a Lahore jail after the counsel returned from India carrying letters and personal items for the Indian prisoner. Awais Sheikh, the lawyer of the Indian prisoner, informed this to Sarabjit's daughter Swapandeep via e-mail on Sunday night. "After returning from India to Pakistan, Sheikh tried to meet my father. He had applied to the Pakistan Home...
05:18 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been in judicial custody in the Chanchalguda prison here for nearly four months, is utilising his leisure time to prepare an action plan for the next Assembly and Parliament elections in 2014. According to a party MLA, his party is in a win-win situation whether the state is divided or not. If the sate is divided, there will a...
12:26 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Kolkata: A Kolkata court on Friday declared nine suspected Naxals as political prisoners. The nine men had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an illegal arms manufacturing case and were said to have been involved in the Lalgarh uprising. The West Bengal High Court had in August granted the nine the political prisoner status. As per the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, political prisoners are...
11:30 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The smile on her face was a cold one. Seventeen years behind bars had made her mind so frozen that she has only blurred memories of the past. But stepping out of prison to the outside world was like a dream that came true. Vijayamma, a 42-year-old inmate of the Womens Jail at Attakkulangara, was released on parole on Wednesday for the first time after she was sentenced to...
02:32 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Bangalore: The state prisons department, which has chalked out several projects to improve skills of the jail inmates, has now come up with the idea of marketing the merchandise produced by jail inmates. The department is working towards making the project, soon a reality. According to the officials, the best quality fabric will be used for the products, but the prices will be less compared to any international brand. We...
12:55 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday freed 48 Indian fishermen from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi as a goodwill gesture and sent them to the Wagah land border crossing to be repatriated to India. The release followed President Asif Ali Zardari's announcement on Saturday that all Indian fishermen in Pakistani jails, including those who are yet to complete their prison terms, would be freed. Zardari made the announcement...
01:40 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Mumbai: Two unidentified persons on a bike opened fire outside the Taloja Prison in Navi Mumbai on Sunday evening. The unidentified men fired at the prison employees. Injured prison employees were taken to a nearby hospital. ...
08:44 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Islamabad: Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row, is all set to be released by the Pakistani government, his lawyer Awais Sheikh says. Sheikh has said that as per his information, the Pakistani government has decided to release Sarabjit Singh, Online news agency reported Friday. Sheikh further said he hopes that Sarabjit Singh would be released before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Pakistan. "The Government of Pakistan has,...
01:50 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Chennai: Dressed smartly in blue striped shirts and dark blue pants, 30 men marched out of the Central Prison at Puzhal on Wednesday evening. While looking a bit self-conscious at being the cynosure of all eyes, they adjusted their caps and stood at attention. Usually sidelined and rejected by society, these men are remand prisoners who have sought to change their lives by getting gainful employment once they are out...
02:22 PM, Sep 06, 2012
