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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered an investigation of rioting at the Tanjung Gusta prison in Medan, North ...

Nelson Mandela is on life support, unable to breathe on his own, an elder in the South African icon`s clan said, all ...

Around 43 percent of inmates sheltered in the penitentiary institutions throughout Indonesia were already proven as ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas blamed the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for ...

A Palestinian prisoner, who was serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, died of throat cancer on Tuesday, the head ...

A senior Cuban official lashed out at President Barack Obama for linking improved human rights in the country to ...

A total of 6,491 Christian prisoners have been granted remission by the Directorate General of Correction (Ditjen PAS) ...

More than 1790 Christian prisoners in the East Nusatenggara province will receive Christmas remission on Tuesday. ...

A total of 446 Indonesian boat crew members are still held in Australian prisons until this month for smuggling asylum ...

Prison sentences of more than 50,000 inmates lodged throughout Indonesia were reduced on the country`s Independence ...

Pakistan on Wednesday released 55 Indian fishermen, 15 of them teenagers, as a "goodwill gesture" to mark independence ...

Chairman of the West Timor Care Foundation (YPTB) Ferdi Tanoni supports the plan mooted by the Australian Government ...

Attackers with guns and explosives raided a jail in a restive Nigerian city on Sunday, leaving four prison guards dead ...

Fifty-eight people convicted and sentenced to death in narcotics cases are awaiting execution in Indonesian prisons. ...

Amnesty International criticized the United States on Wednesday for its use of lethal force, particularly for the ...