HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that prisoners convicted for serious national security crimes would not likely be granted early release under the tightened rules of a new national security law, signaling a hardening government stance against jailed political activists. Chief Executive John Lee said the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance stipulates that people … Read more
By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. which includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters. Hamas said the initial release of Israelis would include women, … Read more
Despite their living nightmare, Buck and Bucky are back together. Such was what Masters of the Air fans found out at the end of part six, which aired on Feb. 23. Now, in an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode of the hit Apple TV+ war drama, viewers get to see Major Cleven (Austin Butler) and Major … Read more
MOSCOW — For the hundreds of political prisoners in Russia’s brutal penitentiary system, word of the death of the country’s most prominent jailed dissident, Alexei Navalny, took days to arrive — and carried a terrifying, if obvious, reminder: None of them are safe. News of Navalny’s sudden death on Feb. 16 in an Arctic penal … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Authorities in the eastern Caribbean said they were trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht that was hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. The Royal Grenada Police Force said in a statement released Friday that they were working on leads “that … Read more
BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The violence erupted around 10 a.m. Wednesday as officers were escorting an inmate across the yard as part of a contraband investigation at … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Jihad Hammouda said he spent 17 days blindfolded and handcuffed in an Israeli detention facility, made to kneel on the ground for hours at a time. He did not know where he was or when he would be released. Israeli soldiers stormed his family home … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — Ukraine and Russia exchanged nearly 500 prisoners of war Wednesday — including Ukrainian service members taken prisoner during fighting at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol and Snake Island in the Black Sea — a sign that talks between Kyiv and Moscow continue, even as … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Leonard Glenn Francis, the fugitive defense contractor who admitted to a $35 million bribery scheme in the largest corruption scandal in U.S. military history, has been arrested and returned by Venezuela to the United States as part of a major prisoner swap between the estranged countries, President … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — During his three years in a Belarusian penal colony, human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka says he and other political prisoners were regularly deprived of family visits, phone calls and parcels. He nearly died when COVID-19 swept through the facility. And he was forced to spend the last nine days of his sentence … Read more