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File - The Iraqi police duty officer of the jail, orders inmates to move to the other side of the room as he prepares to walk inside the cell, during a walking tour of the Bab al Sheikh Police Station, in Eastern Baghdad, Iraq, May 27, 2008. Iraqis held illegally in 'closed' prison, rights group claims
Human Rights Watch accuses Iraqi security forces of 'grabbing people outside of the law' and putting them in secret jails Human Rights Watch claims troops controlled by... (photo: US Army file / Staff Sgt. Brian D. Lehnhardt) The Guardian
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Palestinians hold pictures of prisoners and Palestinian flags as they celebrate the end of a prisoners' hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, May 14, 2012. Palestinian prisoners, Israel make deal to end hunger strike
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 12:24 pm Article: The Scoop Team Palestinian prisoners and Israel make deal to end hunger strike The Scoop Team May 15, 2012 An Egyptian and... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) Scoop
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Palestinian women shouts slogans as holds poster their son during a protest  in front the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Gaza City, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, February 6, 2012. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN Palestinian prisoners to end mass hunger strike
Israel has reached a deal with Palestinian prisoners to end a mass-hunger strike in its jails, resolving a dangerous stand-off that had led to warnings of a major... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) The Daily Telegraph
Israel   Palestinian   Photos   Prisoners   Wikipedia: Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, after submitting to the Secretary-General a formal application for UN membership, 23 September, 2011. Mahmoud Abbas warns of 'national disaster' if hunger striking prisoners were to die
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, has warned of a "national disaster" if any of the 1,550 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails were to die. 'The... (photo: UN / Marco Castro) The Daily Telegraph
Disaster   Israel   Palestinian   Photos   Wikipedia: Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Palestinian Hunger Strike: Israel Prisoners' Portraits Underscore Absence (PHOTOS) Palestinian Hunger Strike: Israel Prisoners' Portraits Underscore Absence (PHOTOS)
KUFR RAI, West Bank -- For the thousands of Palestinian families who have a relative in Israeli detention, a photograph is the only real contact with their loved ones. In... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Huffington Post
Hunger   Israel   Mideast   Palestinian   Photos   Wikipedia: Palestinian people
A journalist records the verdict of the judges in the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, seen on the screen standing in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012. Liberian warlord 'would not be safe' in UK prison
In submissions to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the former Liberian warlord's defence team complained that the 80-year term recommended by the prosecution was... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong) The Independent
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Thousands remain in secret Libya militia prisons Thousands remain in secret Libya militia prisons
UNITED NATIONS - About 4,000 people are still being held in militia detention centres in Libya, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said Thursday. Ian... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) Middle East Online
Libya   Mission   Photos   Security Council.   UN   Wikipedia: Libya
Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa Early prisoner release is fixing wrong problem
THOUSANDS of offenders will be released from prison from next week following President Jacob Zuma ’s announcement last month that the government will grant a special... (photo: World Economic Forum / Michael Wuertenberg) Business Day
Africa   Business   Photos   Prison   Wikipedia: Jacob Zuma
Jogging Woman in Grass Jogging out and in prison
New research suggests to many that adding jogging as a part of your regular could add about six years to your life, according to the Danish study. Copenhagen City Heart... (photo: Creative Commons / Max Rebo Band) The Examiner
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Ex-junta prisoner, Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar Ex-junta prisoner, Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar
NAYPYITAW, MyanmarAung San Suu Kyi capped a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to office holder in long-repressed Myanmar as the country's... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Dayton Daily News
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters hold a banner reading in Arabic ' No for beating civilians in Syria', during an anti-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad' in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 24, 2011. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered near the Syrian embassy in Cairo following the weekly Friday prayers chanting anti-Syrian regime slogans and protesting what they claimed ' The Syrian regime brutality against civilians' From prisoners to rulers: Mobilising for Arab democracy
The Arab Spring has precipitated the rise of new politicians: formerly excluded or incarcerated non-state actors who are, today, either claimants of the state - or at... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Al Jazeera
Arab World   Democracy   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Arab Spring
Republican presidential candidates, from left, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stand together after being introduced during a Republican presidential debate among the 2012 candidates Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) GOP split on Ionia prison closing
By Chad Livengood Detroit News Lansing Bureau Comments Purchase Image Signs turn away casual visitors at the north gate of the old Michigan Reformatory in Ionia.... (photo: AP / Ross D. Franklin) Detroit news
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Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko seen inside the court hearing room, with her husband Oleksandr, nearby at right, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. Tymoshenko's health failing in Ukraine prison
Kiev: Yulia Tymoshenko, the braided darling of Ukraine's Orange Revolution who went on to be prime minister, is wasting away in prison — weakened from a hunger strike,... (photo: AP / Olexander Prokopenko) Zeenews
Health   Photos   Prison   Ukraine   Wikipedia: Yulia Tymoshenko
Israel's Gulag Prison Hell Israel's Gulag Prison Hell
For decades, Palestinians have been slaughtered, displaced, intimidated, humiliated, collectively punished, and denied equal rights as Jews. They've also been mass... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas) The People's Voice
Israel   Palestinians   Photos   Prison   Rights   Wikipedia: Palestine
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at  PM on line Programme in Islamabad on March 30, 2012. Pakistan prime minister convicted of contempt but spared prison
But Yousuf Raza Gilani was spared a prison term in a case that has stoked political tensions in the country. The ruling against Mr Gilani appeared to be a compromise, but... (photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan / PIDP) The Independent
Court   Pakistan   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Yousaf Raza Gillani
Buju Banton Buju Banton will walk free from prison soon – Kwaku Bonsam predicts
Popular fetish priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam has predicted that Jamaican roots reggae/dancehall artiste, Buju Banton who is currently serving a jail term in Jamaica, will... (photo: Creative Commons) Joy Online
Entertainment   Jamaica   Photos   Reggae   Wikipedia: Buju Banton
In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, inmates wait in the hallway for treatment at the infirmary of the Deuel Vocational Institute near Tracy, Calif. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson filed an order Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, that California officials prepare for the end of a court-ordered prison receivership that has been overseeing the state's prison medical system since 2006. Henderson ordered the state, the receiver and attorneys representing inmates to report by April 30 on when the receivership should end and whether it should continue some oversight role. Prisoners at risk for non-communicable diseases
Katharine Herbert, M.B.Ch.B., from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and colleagues reviewed the literature to synthesize current evidence on the prevalence... (photo: AP / Rich Pedroncelli) PhysOrg
Disease   Health   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Non-communicable disease
Palestinian women shouts slogans as holds poster their son during a protest  in front the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Gaza City, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, February 6, 2012. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel launched a hunger strike on Tuesday, officials said, protesting their conditions and demanding... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Huffington Post
Israel   Palestinian   Photos   Prisoners   Wikipedia: Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Palestinian women shouts slogans as holds poster their son during a protest  in front the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Gaza City, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, February 6, 2012. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails begin hunger strike
Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food for one day, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) GlobalResearch
Israeli   Palestinian   Photos   Prisoners   Wikipedia: Palestinian prisoners in Israel
Pakistani security officials visit the central jail in Bannu, 170 kilometer (106 miles) south of Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Taliban attack Pakistan prison, free 380 prisoners
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Taliban militants battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20... (photo: AP / Ijaz Muhammad) Chicago Sun-Times
Asia   Pakistan   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav arrives at a court in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
Jailed Israeli president freed briefly
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Summer gas prices to be stable
Summer gas prices to be stable
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File - Birds sit on the concertina wire overlooking detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
Guantanamo and Poetic Justice and Prophetic Judgment
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