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US Denies Releasing Iranian Funds Held Abroad in Exchange for Setting Namazi Free

The Biden administration has welcomed Iran allowing the US-Iranian dual national Bagher Namazi to leave the country after having banned him from travel for seven years but denied that the release was linked to unfreezing Iranian funds in South Korea. Namazi’s son, Siamak Namazi, was also granted a provisional release…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Teacher accused of raping 14-year-old found dead in prison cell

Brandon Holbrook was found unresponsive in an upright position in his cell leaving police puzzled by his mysterious death.

Daily Record

Ex-prisoners to face compulsory drug testing in new scheme

From Monday, offenders supervised in probation hostels – known as approved premises – will be randomly tested for 14 different drugs.

The Independent UK

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Locked Up: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester last month

Here are the people put behind bars in our region in September

Manchester Evening News

Rights Group: Israel Holding 800 Palestinians Without Trial

Israel is holding nearly 800 Palestinians without trial or charge, the highest number since 2008, an Israeli rights group said Sunday. The group, HaMoked, which regularly gathers figures from Israeli prison authorities, said that 798 Palestinians are currently being held in so-called administrative detention, a practice where the prisoners can…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gandhiji’s message can reform prisoners, says Collector

Society’s responsibility to treat them with compassion once they are released, he says

The Hindu

Fears for heavily pregnant British mum jailed in Tenerife over unpaid fines

Jamielee Fielding, due to give birth in two months, was about to start a family holiday in Tenerife when she was arrested for not paying two fines incurred on a previous trip last year. Her local MP is calling on the British government to help secure her release.

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Hindalga prison inmate found dead

Was charged under POCSO

The Hindu

'My son was told he'd serve three-and-a-half years minimum - 14 years later and he's still locked up'

"I need justice for my son now - he has served way beyond his time"

Manchester Evening News

Man carried on cocaine dealing after his dad's imprisonment to pay off drug debts

Rhys Hall was a teenager when his father got him involved in cocaine dealing

Wales Online

Prisoner on run for months is finally caught by police at his own birthday party

Forenza Murphy was serving a four-year prison sentence for robbery at Connecticut's Department of Corrections halfway house in Bridgeport in the US when he escaped on August 8

Daily Mirror

Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall and ISIS bride Lisa Smith become best friends in prison

'You would never picture the two of them talking but they seem to get on pretty well'

Irish Mirror

Glasgow gangland killer Paul Lyons 'loses parole' over iPhone at high security prison

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard earlier this week the 41-year-old's cell was searched by jail guards who found the phone stashed inside a hidden compartment of a box.

Glasgow Live

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'laughed' at gardai after he was arrested and taken from cell

The 58-year-old was quizzed for a number of hours at a Dublin Garda station about his suspected involvement in organised crime

Dublin Live

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The Independent UK

Hurricane Orlene heads for Mexico's former prison islands

Hurricane Orlene has rapidly strengthened as it swirls toward Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast, with a likely close brush with former prison islands being developed by the government as an ecotourism destination

ABC News

Shepparton disability provider Gallawah rapidly growing thanks to unique service

Tina Powney wondered whether her son, who lives with a range of disabilities, would be the next Indigenous person to die in custody during one of his periods in jail. She decided to create the kind of service she needed but could not find.

The Guardian - US

Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release

Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furlough

Reuters

U.S. citizen allowed to leave Iranian prison for a week

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been allowed out of Tehran's Evin prison on a one-week furlough, his lawyer said on Saturday.

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Iran, U.S. prisoner swap mediated by regional state -Nournews

A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," Iran's Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Iranian-American businessman out of prison on a one-week furlough.

Tribune News Service

US wins release of Venezuela-held Americans in swap with Maduro

President Joe Biden’s administration said Venezuela freed seven detained Americans, including several U.S. oil executives, in a prisoner swap involving two members of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro’s family.

The Independent UK

Venezuela releases 7 jailed Americans; US frees 2 prisoners

Venezuela’s government has freed seven Americans imprisoned in the South American country in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions

Daily Record

Heavily pregnant Scots mum 'jailed in Tenerife over unpaid fines' as fears raised for unborn baby

Officials found Jamielee Fielding, from West Lothian, had failed to pay the 420 Euro fines which were incurred in September 2021 and deemed her a fugitive.

The Times of India

Chhattisgarh HC alters murder charge to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, releases convict

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh High Court has provided relief to a person, convicted by the Dantewada session court for the murder of his wife, by altering the charges to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and also ordered his release as he had already served ten years in prison.

Edinburgh Live

Pregnant West Lothian woman jailed in Tenerife after failing to pay small fines

Jamielee Fielding had travelled to the popular holiday destination to meet her father and brother for a trip in the sun, but was instead arrested upon her arrival.

WEKU

What it's like serving a life sentence in prison with no chance of release

When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Now, he's helping to tell the stories of other men who have found themselves behind bars for life.

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