German suspect in Madeleine McCann case freed from prison
The top suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal was freed from a German prison on Wednesday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported...
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Govt considers shorter terms for lifers, release of elderly inmates
The government is considering reducing the 30-year jail term for life-sentenced prisoners and releasing some elderly inmates after reviewing their sentences...
Govt considering reducing life imprisonment term: adviser
Bangladesh interim government home adviser Lieutenant General, Retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said the government is considering reducing the life imprisonment term to a reasonable period from 30 years aimed at releasing older prisoners.
US envoy agrees to prisoner swap: Taliban govt
Washington鈥檚 special envoy Adam Boehler made a rare visit on Saturday to Kabul, where he said the United States would move forward with a prisoner exchange, according to the Taliban government...
Read to reduce sentence, Uzbekistan tells prisoners
Prisoners in Uzbekistan will be able to plead for reduced sentences if they read books selected by authorities to cultivate 鈥榗orrect spiritual and moral values鈥�, officials said.
Thai woman jailed for 43 years for royal insult freed
A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom鈥檚 longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on Wednesday under a mass pardon marking the king鈥檚 birthday...
Nine extremists among 700 escaped inmates still in hiding
Inspector general of prisons Brigadier General Syed Md Motaher Hossain on Tuesday revealed that nine militants were among 700 inmates who remained absconding till now after a jailbreak during the past year鈥檚 political unrest.
Locking up and torturing the resistance
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa at 20 years old on Aug 3, 2025 inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison...
Accursed fate of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025, inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the...
Navalnaya urges Putin to agree release of anti-war prisoners
Exiled Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya on Friday urged presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to strike a deal to free Russian and Ukrainian political prisoners held captive by Moscow for speaking out against the war...
Russia, Ukraine exchange 84 prisoners each
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 84 prisoners each on Thursday, both sides said, the latest in a series of swaps that has seen hundreds of POWs released so far this year...
Man gets life imprisonment for killing wife in Faridpur
A Faridpur court on Monday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment for burning his wife to death in sadar upazila in 2011...
List of July prisoners, jail code reform demanded
July uprising protesters who were imprisoned during the uprising last year have demanded a list from the government of those who were incarcerated and also pressed for reforms in the Jail Code...
Myanmar junta mandates prison sentences for election critics
Myanmar鈥檚 junta said Wednesday it has enacted a new law dictating prison sentences for critics or protesters of their planned election, which is being boycotted by opposition groups...
Venezuela says migrants were tortured in Salvadoran prison
Venezuela announced a probe Monday into torture claims by 252 migrants the United States had sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison where they said they were beaten, sexually abused and fed rotten food...
Amnesty urges probe into Israeli strike on Tehran prison
Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a war crimes investigation into Israel鈥檚 deadly air attack on Tehran鈥檚 Evin prison during last month鈥檚 12-day war...
Fatullah鈥檚 ex-OC jailed for hiding wealth info
A Dhaka court on Sunday convicted and sentenced Md Hasan Ali, former officer-in-charge of Fatullah police station, to two years imprisonment in a case lodged for concealing information about his wealth...
Two-year imprisonment for evaluating public exam answer sheets by others
An examiner of public examination will get two years imprisonment if he or she evaluates answer scripts by others...
Indonesian influencer given 7-year Myanmar prison sentence
An Indonesian influencer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for meeting with rebels in junta-ruled Myanmar, a foreign ministry official in Jakarta said Wednesday...
56 life-term prisoners freed after serving 20yrs
The government has released 56 life term awarded prisoners upon completion of 20 years in imprisonment...
Man jailed for 10 years for attempted child rape in Hatirjheel
A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced Md Shukur Ali Sheikh, 35, to 10-year imprisonment in a case lodged over the attempted rape of a six-year-old child in the city鈥檚 Hatirjheel area in 2021...
Ukraine, Russia exchange new group of POWs
Ukraine and Russia said on Thursday they had swapped a fresh group of prisoners of war, the third exchange this week as part of a deal agreed at peace talks in Turkey...
Russia strikes Kyiv amid POW exchange with Ukraine
A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv Saturday wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow鈥檚 invasion...
Prisoner dies at Gopalganj hospital after falling ill in jail
A prisoner of Gopalganj district jail who fell sick in the jail died at 250-bed Gopalganj General Hospital on Wednesday...
Bangladesh jail authority embarks on renewable energy initiative
The Bangladesh Prison Directorate has signed a contract with a consortium led by Mover Solar and Renewable Energy Ltd to implement solar energy systems across the country鈥檚 prisons, beginning with Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj as a pilot project.
Trump orders reopening of defunct US prison Alcatraz
US president Donald Trump said on Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago...
HC seeks list of prisoners pardoned by president
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the list of the convicts whose imprisonment or punishment had been commuted or suspended by the president under section 49 of the constitution over the past 33 years should not be published...
Man gets life imprisonment for raping stepdaughter
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Anwar Hossain to life imprisonment for raping his stepdaughter repeatedly at Hatirjheel in Dhaka in 2022...
Russia, US swap prisoners in push for closer ties
The United States on Thursday exchanged a sanctions-busting suspect for a ballet dancer held by Russia, the second swap under US president Donald Trump as Moscow and Washington push to rebuild ties...
BSF returns 14 Bangladeshis
Fourteen Bangladeshi nationals were returned to the country on Wednesday afternoon after serving different terms of imprisonment in Indian jail for allegedly entering that country illegally...