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Russian forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage takers at detention centre

Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian special forces freed two prison guards and shot dead six inmates linked to the Islamic State militant group who had taken them hostage at a detention centre in the southern city of Rostov on Sunday, Russian media said. State media said that some of the men had been convicted of terrorism […]

Former Ecuador vice president hospitalised but stable, prisons agency says

Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuador’s detained former Vice President Jorge Glas was taken to hospital on Monday after he fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil, prison authorities said, just hours after his lawyers complained they had been unable to contact him. Glas, already twice convicted of corruption and now facing fresh charges, was arrested on […]

Thai tycoon Thaksin tastes freedom in homeland, 15 years after fleeing

Bangkok, Thailand Reuters Thailand’s billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday after six months in detention, his first day of freedom in his homeland 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow in a military coup. Thailand’s best-known and most polarising premier, the influential Thaksin has loomed large […]

Russia’s Navalny describes harsh reality at ‘Polar Wolf’ Arctic prison

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence, in Moscow, Russia on 17th May, 2022

Moscow, Russia Reuters Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Tuesday confirmed his arrival at what he described as a snow-swept prison above the Arctic Circle and said he was in excellent spirits despite a tiring 20-day journey to get there.  Navalny posted an update on X via his lawyers after his allies lost touch […]

Time behind bars for Cardinal Becciu? Not any time soon, experts say

Judge Giuseppe Pignatone reads the verdict of the Vatican corruption trial, at the Vatican, on 16th December, 2023

Vatican City Reuters None of the six people who received jail sentences at the end of the Vatican’s big corruption trial on Saturday will likely be spending time behind bars anytime soon and some perhaps not ever, according to legal and security experts. Several, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever […]

Jailed ex-premier Imran Khan barred from Pakistan politics for five years

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan pauses as he speaks with Reuters during an interview, in Lahore, Pakistan, on 17th March, 2023

Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, who has been convicted and jailed on graft charges, was barred from politics for five years on Tuesday, an official order said. The order by the Election Commission of Pakistan, seen by Reuters and confirmed by a senior officer, said Khan was disqualified in line with […]