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French gangster who made Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak apprehended north of Paris
A gangster who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak has been arrested in northern France after three months on the run, sources close to the inquiry said early Wednesday. Notorious French robber Redoine Faid was apprehended during the night in the Oise region north of Paris ...
Man who escaped from 'prison without walls' in Japan gets four more years in jail
The Matsuyama District Court sentenced a 27-year-old man to four more years in prison on Friday over his escape earlier this year from an open prison in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. According to the ruling and other sources, Tatsuma Hirao broke out of a dormitory for ...
China must come clean about the fate of an estimated 1 million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in its far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said Monday. Beijing has tightened restrictions on Muslim minorities to combat what it calls Islamic extremism ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi at World Economic Forum defends jailing of two Reuters journalists
Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences. Suu Kyi, in her first public comment on the case since the two ...
Taiwan has executed a death row inmate, the first execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government, despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty. Lee Hung-chi was executed at a prison in the southern city of Kaohsiung on Friday afternoon by ...
It's barely 6 a.m. and Alfred is already busy milking cows. But when his chores on the farm are done, he won't be going home — he'll be returning to his prison cell. In Sweden, which prioritizes rehabilitation over long prison sentences, Alfred is one ...
A museum dedicated to the Soviet gulags has been forced to close, its director said Friday, the latest case of Russian authorities putting pressure on those researching the Soviet-era camps. "We no longer have access to the museum, and yesterday there was an attempt to ...
North Korea says it will grant large-scale prisoner amnesty next month
North Korea is planning to grant a general amnesty next month in the run-up to the 70th anniversary of its foundation day in September, state media said Monday, in an echo of moves done before other key dates in the nuclear-armed country's history. The North's ...
Japanese man, a North Korean defector, sentenced to five years for spying in China
A Chinese court has sentenced a Japanese man to five years in prison on charges of espionage, sources familiar with Japan-China relations said. Dandong Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning Province handed down the sentence at the trial of the 57-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture, the ...
Prosecutors claim relationship problems drove inmate to flee Ehime prison
The three-week manhunt sparked by Tatsuma Hirao’s escape was caused by disagreements with others at the minimum security prison, prosecutors claim as his trial opens.
Chinese democracy activist sentenced to 13 years in prison for 'subversion'
A prominent Chinese political campaigner was sentenced to 13 years in prison Wednesday, a court in central China said. Qin Yongmin was found "guilty of subversion of state power," the Wuhan City Intermediate People's Court said on its official website. According to court records, it appears ...
Indian court upholds death sentences over 2012 bus gang rape
India's Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences handed down to three men over the gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012, saying there were no grounds for a review. "The review petition of all the three convicts has been ...
