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Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip in an undated handout photo released by the military on January 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 2, 2024, 8:15 am
Military Police probe IDF soldier’s killing of Palestinian detainee in Gaza
Terror suspect was arrested alive, questioned by field interrogators, handed over to another soldier to be guarded, apparently shot and killed after soldier felt ‘threatened’
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
October 25, 2021, 2:57 pm
‘A cornerstone of repression’: Fresh claims raise fears over Iran prison abuses
A slew of recent allegations concerning high-profile detainees and claims disseminated on social media have amplified anxiety about treatment of prisoners in the Islamic Republic
By Stuart Williams
View of the Rimonim prison on August 26, 2014. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
October 24, 2021, 5:09 pm
Alleged rapist found dead in his prison cell in central Israel
Attorney for the suspect, an ex-IDF officer who was once honored by the president for his service, says he saw no indication the prisoner would take his own life
By ToI Staff
One of fourteen Egyptians, who refused to be identified, on trial on charges of receiving illicit foreign funds to operate unlicensed NGOs, leaves a cage in a court room in the capital Cairo, March 8, 2012. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
December 7, 2020, 8:57 am
Decade after Arab Spring, vast numbers of political detainees languish in prison
Autocratic regimes still in power, cracking down on dissent in Egypt and Syria, where thousands have died in custody and more harbor scant hopes of freedom
By AFP
This July 1, 2019, photo shows the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
August 13, 2019, 10:41 pm
Guards suspended, warden reassigned after Epstein death
66-year-old financier killed himself while awaiting trial at Manhattan correctional facility on charges of trafficking and sexually abusing girls
By Jim Mustian, Michael R. Sisak and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Illustrative photo of Eshel Prison, undated. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 21, 2018, 3:18 am
Palestinian prisoners in Israel protest after inmate dies
Aziz Awizat, in jail for attempting to blow up buildings in Jerusalem, dies in hospital weeks after attacking guard with boiling water
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Eshel Prison, undated. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 10, 2014, 6:36 pm
Autopsy after Palestinian dies in Israeli jail
Prisons Service says that Raed Abdel Salam al-Jaabari hanged himself, but family rejects the claim
By AFP and ToI Staff
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