Two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed after more than 500 days
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars. The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe ...
Expensive daily products at Osaka Prison prompt human rights concern from lawyers
Tissue paper and other daily products sold at Osaka Prison are so expensive that inmates mostly cannot purchase them, a situation amounting to a human rights violation, according to local lawyers. The Osaka Bar Association advised the prison to make improvements in a statement dated ...
Japan repatriated more than 400 foreign prisoners over 16-year period, Justice Ministry reveals
“Serving terms in home countries where there are no language or cultural differences should help the prisoners’ smooth return to society,” a ministry official said.
Flu hits 300 staffers and inmates at Nagoya Prison, sparking lockdown and state of emergency
The last time more than a hundred people at the prison caught the flu was in 2015 when 109 got sick.
The policy covers employment and housing support measures for former inmates to prevent them from reoffending.
Japan under scrutiny over ousted Nissan chief's continued detention after arrest
Questions and concerns about Japan are swirling internationally over its treatment of ousted Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, whose detention was extended following his arrest last week over alleged financial misconduct. The arrest of the 64-year-old executive, viewed as the automaker's savior, came out ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Mexico extradites key lieutenant of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' to U.S.
Mexico on Friday extradited to the United States a senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel drug gang formerly headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the attorney general's office said. Damaso Lopez, known as "The Graduate" because of his higher education studies, was a former security ...
Three protesters from Hong Kong's radical youth opposition were jailed on Monday for taking part in a violent unrest, receiving the harshest sentences handed down to democracy activists since the city returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Edward Leung, 27, one of the leaders of ...
