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The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Six suspects in assassination of Ecuador candidate are found dead in prison cell

Alleged assassins found dead in notorious Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil

The Independent UK

David Walliams says he was ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during recent trip to Venice

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

Iranian intellectual calls on opposition to unite as he is again sent to prison

Majid Tavakoli, taken from his family in handcuffs, urges dissidents to ‘frankly analyse’ why opposition to the regime has successively failed

The Guardian - UK

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Nobel peace prize 2023: award for Iranian women's rights protester highlights fight against declining democracy around the world

One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She promised: “We shall not back down until the moment of victory, meaning the…

The Conversation

Conviction of man for Lin and Megan Russell murders reviewed after Levi Bellfield confession

Exclusive: Levi Bellfield has twice confessed to 1996 murders despite Michael Stone spending 26 years in prison for the crime

The Guardian - UK

Colombians held over Ecuador presidential candidate’s murder slain in jail

Ecuador’s president pledges to get to bottom of killings in prison of six Colombian suspects in high-profile murder.

Al Jazeera

A Texas killer says a prison fire damaged injection drugs. He wants a judge to stop his execution

Attorneys for a condemned Texas killer say drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to heat from a fire and have asked a federal judge to stop his execution

The Independent UK

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Prison lessons from the Netherlands

Letters: Dave Beakhust points out that prison is not the only way to punish offenders. Plus letters from Matthew Ryder and Anne Keat

The Guardian - UK

For imprisoned Nobel laureates, the prize did not bring freedom

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December

The Independent UK

Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state. She was named by the…

The Conversation

Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi?

The jailed Nobel laureate has been a prominent voice in Iran’s women’s movement.

Al Jazeera

Narges Mohammadi: a defiant voice for women’s rights in Iran

The articulate campaigner and now Nobel peace prize winner refuses to be silenced even in prison

The Guardian - UK

Haryana: Court awards 20-year rigorous imprisonment and Rs 35,000 fine to accused in POCSO case in Jind

CHANDIGARH: An Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) in Haryana's Jind district handed down a 20-year prison sentence in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case on Friday.

The Times of India

A Hong Kong man gets 4 months in prison for importing children's books deemed to be seditious

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Pat Arrowsmith’s legacy - the antinuclear activist was a peace poet too

Pat Arrowsmith, the British peace activist and notable figure in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, passed away last week at the age of 93. Obituaries have celebrated her commitment to the peace movement, noted her one-day marriage (despite being a lesbian, Arrowsmith married a man to fulfil the terms of…

The Independent UK

‘Depraved’ former BBC Radio 1 DJ dies in prison while serving sentence for abusing boys as young as eight

Convicted pedophile and former BBC Radio 1 presenter Chris Denning died of diabetes in prison aged 81, after being convicted for a string of offences against 35 young boys, some as young as eight

WEKU

Jailed Iranian women's rights activist wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who remains in prison in Iran, is this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The Independent UK

Serial subject Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned. He’s still fighting to keep it that way

The case which gained global attention in the podcast Serial has rumbled on for over two decades. Now, one year after Adnan Syed walked free from prison, he is back in court fighting to prove his innocence in the 2000 murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Mike Bedigan and…

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The Independent UK

Disgraced radio DJ Chris Denning dies while serving prison term for sex crimes

The prolific paedophile, 81, used his fame to groom and sexually assault dozens of young victims in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Evening Standard

Jailed Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting the oppression of women in the country.

The Independent UK

Jail Tales: Meet the TikToker interviewing criminals at prison gates

Jamie Robinson says he thinks his interviews deter young people from committing crime

The Independent UK

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Iranian women’s rights ‘freedom fighter’ Narges Mohammadi

Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading activists, who has also campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty

AAP

Virgin gamer jailed over hammer attack on sex worker

A virgin man who enjoyed watching violent pornography has been sentenced to nine years in prison after attacking a sex worker with a hammer in a Sydney hotel.

AAP

Women's jail still lacks full CCTV after guard's rapes

A NSW corrective services security manager says a prison where a former guard sexually abused female inmates does not have adequate CCTV cameras.

Al Jazeera

Philippines’ drag artist Pura Luka Vega arrested for ‘offending religion’

Performer faces as many as 12 years in prison after their punk rock rendition of the Lord’s Prayer went viral.

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