The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Search Continues For Missing Syrians After Rebel Prison Release

Search underway for missing Syrians post-release of prisoners from Saydnaya Military Prison. White Helmets deploy teams for search.

Top News · Dec 9, 2024

Briton jailed in Dubai for past 16 years pleads with Starmer to end ‘nightmare’ on UAE visit

Exclusive: PM urged to fight for release of Ryan Cornelius, now 70, who has spent almost two decades imprisoned on a fraud charge the UN has said is unjust

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2024

‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

Man, Imprisoned For 24 Years For A Murder He Didn't Commit, Is Sent Back To Jail… For Another Murder

A Philadelphia man, exonerated after 24 years in prison, is now facing a life sentence for a new murder. The victim was a drug dealer who failed to pay a debt.

International Business Times UK · Dec 9, 2024

Syria latest news: Thousands celebrate fall of Assad amid fears chemical weapons could fall into wrong hands

Fears are growing that terrorist groups may get hold of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2024

Preserving territorial integrity is key, say US and Russian diplomats at UN – as it happened

Deputy US ambassador Robert Wood says nearly everyone at UN meeting backed Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence

The Guardian - AU · Dec 9, 2024

Syrian rebels free prisoners from Assad's notorious dungeons who celebrate in Damascus streets

Tens of thousands of people held in Syria's notorious prisons have been freed in the 10 days since the insurgents began their lightning advance across the country that ended with the toppling of President Bashar Assad

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2024

‘Lives on hold’: a day in the crown court where cases are delayed for years

Backlog in cases set to reach 100,000 in England and Wales without action on shortage of barristers and judges

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

Court delays ‘driving innocent prisoners to plead guilty’ in England and Wales

Exclusive: Some inmates being advised to change plea to secure earlier release as backlog spirals, watchdogs say

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

Syrians emerging from Assad’s prisons taste ‘beautiful’ freedom as regime topples

Prisoners released from Syria’s notoriously torturous Saydnaya prison tell The Independent the feeling of freedom is indescribable and beautiful

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2024