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Teacher, administrative officer of private school in Coimbatore held for molesting students

Police arrest PE teacher, admin officer of Coimbatore school for molesting girl students. Duo accused of touching students with wrong intentions, giving punishments to those who resisted. Police registered case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Court remanded them in judicial custody, sent to Coimbatore Central Prison.

The Hindu

Defining Issues: Don't cherry pick changes to the Sentencing Act

Proponents of harsher sentences for criminals claim those who offend have their rights put ahead of the rights of their victims.

Newsroom.co.nz

Why are so many Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails?

One in five Palestinians spends time in Israel jails. Hamas says it wants to exchange captured Israelis for them.

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Alleged childcare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith attacked in Queensland jail

Gold Coast man, 45, reportedly had hot water thrown in his face by fellow prisoner on Friday and was taken to hospital for assessment

The Guardian - AU

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

“Woman, Life, Freedom,” the slogan adopted by Iranians to protest the unjust death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the most suitable way to describe the work of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi.

The Conversation

‘I just wasn’t being honest’: a true crime author confronts the NT justice system and himself

When journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story

The Guardian - AU

A seventh man accused in killing of an Ecuador presidential candidate is slain inside prison

Ecuadorian authorities say a seventh man accused in the assassination of a presidential candidate in August has been killed inside a prison

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Imprisoned Iranian Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for fight against oppression of women in Iran.

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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

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.

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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 Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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 Conversation

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…

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Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi?

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

The Guardian - UK

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 Times of India

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 Independent UK

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 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

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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.

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