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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday dampened hopes for a mass release of prisoners that US President Donald Trump requested from him in a phone call last week. The Belarus ...

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident which saw a prisoner suffer injuries to ‘various parts’ of his body which were ‘possibly caused by a sharp object’. The ...

Russia and Ukraine will conduct a new prisoner swap on Saturday mediated by the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters. Nearly 500 Russian and Ukrainian prisoners ...

Signs of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other, multiplied on Thursday but there was no ...

The situation for prisoners has deteriorated since 2017, while the Nicosia central prisons are “bursting at the seams”, an anti-torture report published on Friday revealed. Concerns were raised in the Council ...

A new open wing at the central prison is set to be opened by the end of the month, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. Hartsiotis was speaking following ...

A prisoner was taken to Nicosia General on Tuesday after he went to the prison infirmary with facial injuries, the prisons department said. At around 3pm, the convict was taken ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is freeing at least 20 opposition-linked prisoners and 10 Americans in exchange for the U.S release of a Maduro ally, two senior U.S. officials ...

All necessary disciplinary proceedings will be carried out against an inmate who falsely claimed to have swallowed four blades, the prison department announced on Wednesday. The prisoner allegedly went up ...

Prisoners will be allowed an extra visit during the Easter holidays, the prison department announced on Tuesday. Visitation hours are between 8am to 1pm which will be allowed on April 15, 16 ...

Prisoners’ rights protection association on Tuesday said they will protest following the announcement of the 75 prisoners who will be released with pardons from President Nikos Christodoulides. The pardons will see ...

The justice ministry said on Friday it supports the introduction of electronic tagging as an alternative to serving a prison sentence, with the exclusion of those guilty of exploiting or ...

The Supreme Court has rejected a request by 54 prisoners for permission to file a motion to cancel a search warrant of their wing executed by police on August 3. Police secured ...

Lost Vegas is teaming up with life-long British prisoner to raise funds for mental health charity An Ayia Napa-based band that stormed the iTunes charts in the UK last year, ...