Prison

A court in Mali has sentenced 46 Ivorian troops whose detention in Mali sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries to 20 years in prison, the public prosecutor said. Three women soldiers among the original group detained in July,…

A Federal Capital Territory, high court in Abuja, Nigeria, has ordered the remand of suspended Nigeria's accountant General, Ahmed Idris to the Kuje correctional facility. The court also ordered the remand of Godfrey Olusegun…

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a central figure of the 2011 "revolution" and Egypt's most famous political prisoner, has been on hunger strike since Saturday to protest his detention, his mother Laila Soueif said. "He refuses to eat because his…

A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on Monday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. A spokesman for Myanmar’s military, Zaw Min Tun said, Aung…

Former Venezuelan Defense Minister and retired general Raul Baduel, considered a political prisoner by the opposition, has died after contracting COVID-19. The attorney general, Tarek Saab said on Tuesday that, "We regret the death of…

More than 50 people have been killed and dozens of others injured in three prison riots in Ecuador, with other Prisons put on high alert, police said on Tuesday. According to authorities, riots erupted in prisons located in three cities…

South Korea has rolled out mass testing for 52 prisons in the country after a massive prison outbreak in a prison in southeastern Seoul. Over half of the total 2,292 inmates and personnel in the prison were tested positive for Covid-19…