BANGKOK — Myanmar military government has granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners, including political detainees and activists, state-run media reported Monday. The move coincides with Peasants’ Day, a national holiday honoring farmers, and comes just two weeks before parliament convenes for its first session in over five years following a controversial election. Read More: Peasants on […]
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Punjab Prisons Overcrowded Beyond Limit, Says Hamid Mir
Breathing space has run out in Punjab’s jails, as the province has broken all previous records of overcrowding. According to senior journalist Hamid Mir’s post on X (formerly Twitter), Punjab has 45 prisons with a total capacity of 38,000 inmates — but the number of prisoners has now exceeded 70,000. سانس لینا بھی مشکل ۔پنجاب […]
President rejects mercy pleas of five death row convicts involved in brutal crimes
President Dr. Arif Alvi has rejected the mercy petitions of five prisoners who had been given death sentences after the charges of brutal crimes were proved against them. The media wing of the President House on Wednesday said that President Alvi rejected the mercy petitions of Muhammad Shaban s/o Muhammad Anwar (rape and murder of […]
US and Afghanistan carry out prisoner exchange: Taliban
Kabul: An American navy veteran detained in Afghanistan for more than two years was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for a key ally, Afghanistan’s foreign minister said. Mark Frerichs was working as a civil engineer on construction projects in Afghanistan when he was “taken hostage” in 2020, the United States has previously […]
India, Pakistan exchange lists of prisoners
ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan on Friday exchanged the lists of civilian and fishermen prisoners in each other’s custody. The Government of Pakistan shared with the Indian High Commission a list of 682 Indian prisoners detained in Pakistan, including 49 civilians and 633 fishermen. “This step is consistent with clause (i) of the Consular Access Agreement […]
Iran leader grants clemency to over 2,800 prisoners
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has granted clemency to more than 2,800 jailed convicts to mark two Muslim religious holidays, his website said Saturday. The statement did not elaborate on the identity of the 2,825 prisoners who were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted. Clemency was granted to mark Eid al-Adha celebrated in […]
Pakistan, India swap lists of prisoners
India and Pakistan swapped lists of fisherman and civilian prisoners. “This step is consistent with the clause (i) of the Agreement on Consular Access between Pakistan and India, signed on 21st May 2008, under which both countries are required to exchange lists of prisoners in each other’s custody twice a year, on 1st January and […]
Egyptian student sentenced to four years in prison over ‘false news’
An Egyptian court Tuesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for “spreading false news”, rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled “outrageous”. Ahmed Samir, a master’s student at the Central European University in Vienna studying women’s reproductive rights, was arrested in February after returning to Egypt on a family visit. […]
Spain to pardon jailed Catalan separatists
Spain will pardon the jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, in a move that could turn the page on a years-long political impasse over the region’s separatist drive. The Socialist premier said his government had “opted for reconciliation” and believes the controversial pardon — which will […]
Putin says open to possible prisoner swap with US
President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast Monday that Russia was open to a possible prison swap with the United States, as he spoke ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden. “Yes, of course,” Putin told NBC News when asked if he would consider a prisoner swap — a likely topic of discission […]