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Iranian-Swedish Tensions Rise over Trial of 1988 Mass Executions Jailer

Swedish-Iranian national Ahmad Reza Jalali is to be executed on May 21 at the latest, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency said on Wednesday, citing sources. Jalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher, was arrested in 2016 on an academic visit to Iran and sentenced to death on charges of espionage…

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Explained | Why was tennis star Boris Becker sentenced to prison?

During his career, Boris Becker won six Grand Slams in all – three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Open titles, and one Roland Garros title.

The Hindu

Jailed Boris Becker ‘doing as well as he can’ in prison but it’s ‘not a five-star hotel’, estranged wife says

Dutch model Lilly Becker says she is ‘very much’ still tennis champion’s wife despite 2018 reports of divorce

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Santi Mina: Spanish footballer sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse

The 26-year-old will appeal against the sentence

The Independent UK

Boris Becker says prison 'is no five star hotel' as he speaks out on first nights in jail

Speaking on Piers Morgan's Uncensored show on Tuesday, Dutch model Lilly Becker, 45, said she completely "broke down" at the sentencing and spoke how the former Wimbledon champ, 54, was bearing up in prison

Daily Mirror

Murderer Mark Whelan dead after falling ill in the showers of Mountjoy Prison

The Irish Prison Service immediately notified gardai though it is understood that no foul play is suspected.

Irish Mirror

Bishop Auckland pervert found with indecent images including hour-long video of child being abused

Jonathan McCue was found with over 200 indecent images of children when police searched his home which he had accessed via a Russian website

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Woman abducted from foster home then found 170 miles away after being raped

Five people have now been jailed

Manchester Evening News

Nurse rebuffed over Melbourne prison death

A registered nurse who assessed Veronica Nelson in the lead-up to her death says her repeated requests to give a statement in the aftermath were refused.

AAP

Burglar went 'off the rails' after finding out son's killer could be released from prison

Paul Turner burgled a family home in Bolton and attempted to break in to another home just feet away in the early hours of January 6 2021

Manchester Evening News

Ukrainian Snake Island soldier describes harrowing conditions in Russian captivity

Valery Zakabluk, who was in Russian captivity for five weeks before being freed in a prisoner exchange, opens up about the harrowing conditions he had to endure

Daily Mirror

Church minister becomes Barlinnie prison DJ on Barbed radio for inmates

Rev Jill Clancy took over the Barbed Wireless radio station at HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow during the first lockdown in 2020.

Daily Record

Anti-death penalty activists rally as Missouri man is executed for double murder

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Citians came out in protest Tuesday ahead of the impending execution of Carman Deck, a 56-year-old man convicted of murdering two people in eastern Missouri who died by lethal injection at a state prison.

Tribune News Service

Judge mulls Arizona prisoner’s mental fitness to be executed

A judge plans to issue a ruling Tuesday night on a request by an Arizona prisoner to stop his May 11 execution on the grounds that his psychological problems keep him from rationally understanding why the state wants to end his life

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Leader of Haiti’s 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped American missionaries, is flown to US

The leader of an infamous gang behind an ongoing armed conflict with another gang in Haiti was flown by federal agents from Port-au-Prince to the United States on Tuesday in connection with last year’s kidnapping of 16 American missionaries.

ABC News

Daughter of Robert Pether, jailed and feared tortured in Iraq, asks Scott Morrison to intervene in his case

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

The Independent UK

Alaskan neo-Nazi prison gang members guilty of brutal murder

White supremacist leader directed members to murder and kidnap anyone who ‘diminished the power of the gang’

Daily Record

Murderer carried out horrific razor blade attack which left prisoner without eyeball

Double killer Derek Pallas attacked his victim with the blade inside his clenched fist while another inmate held his victim down.

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Daily Mirror

Boris Becker's ex-wife says son, 12, 'can't grasp' that tennis legend is in prison

Boris Becker's ex-wife Lilly has detailed the heartbreaking moment she told son Amadeus, 12, who she shares with the tennis legend, that his dad had been sent to prison

Manchester Evening News

Prisoner lost an eye after convicted killer attacked him with a razor blade

Convicted killer Derek Pallas has been jailed for longer after a brutal attack on a fellow inmate

Chronicle Live

Jimmy Prout murder: Brother's sympathy for killer Ann Corbett after prison cell remorse

Eddie Prout has hopes lessons can be learned after Domestic Homicide Review into vulnerable Jimmy's death is published

Daily Record

Decision on freeing mother of Baby P from prison could be made this week

Tracey Connelly's little boy died after suffering more than 50 injuries

The Hindu

Keep an oversight on literature available in prison libraries, MHA tells States

Centre says ‘background of NGOs involved with prison activities may be verified on periodic basis’

Daily Mirror

Thug who abused baby is tied up and hit with homemade weapons by inmates in cell

Michael Stewart and Nathan Odgers have been jailed for locking Anthony Smith in a cell and beating him repeatedly with socks full of tuna at Swaleside Prison on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent

The Independent UK

Top German court reject's Syrian's appeal in torture case

Germany’s top court says it has rejected the appeal of a former members of Syria’s secret police who was convicted last year of facilitating the torture of prisoners in his home country

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