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This undated handout picture obtained on April 21, 2021 from the Facebook page of Entisar al-Hammadi shows her posing for a 'selfie' at an unknown location. (FACEBOOK / AFP)
October 26, 2025, 2:05 pm
Houthis release Ethiopian-Yemeni model after five years in prison
Entisar al-Hammadi was sentenced on charges of prostitution, drug abuse, fornication, which her lawyer and rights groups say were false
By AFP
The Israel Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in Arabic: 'We will not forget or forgive,' February 15, 2025. (Israel Prison Service)
October 6, 2025, 4:36 pm
Fearing for talks, PM asks High Court to delay a hearing on Palestinian prisoner visits
Netanyahu’s office cites potential harm to efforts to secure return of hostages from Gaza; civil rights attorney rejects implication that renewing Red Cross visits would be impediment
By Yuval Yoaz
'The Very Narrow Bridge' is a prayer book designed for people who are incarcerated on Rikers Island, New York City's jail that's accessible only by bridge. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
August 16, 2025, 12:34 am
New on Rikers Island: A Jewish prayerbook designed for incarcerated congregants
Possibly the first of its kind, ‘The Very Narrow Bridge: A Rikers Island Siddur’ seeks to meet the needs of a readership as diverse as the jail population itself
By Marla Brown Fogelman
This undated photo shows Arkansas inmate Gregory Holt, also known as Abdul Maalik Muhammad. (Arkansas Department of Correction)
July 12, 2025, 10:08 am
US Muslim inmate who won beard case claims retaliatory transfer by Arkansas officials
Gregory Holt, also known as Abdul Maalik Muhammad, was supported by Orthodox Jewish and other groups in 2015 Supreme Court case that upheld his right to maintain half-inch beard
By Andrew DeMillo
Fog lingers behind Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, July 1, 2015,. (Eric Risberg/AP)
May 5, 2025, 11:22 am
Trump says he will reopen notorious Alcatraz prison, ‘symbol of law and order’
US president instructs Bureau of Prisons to reopen ‘a substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ facility on island off San Francisco to house US’s most ‘ruthless and violent offenders’
By Jill Colvin and Michael R. Sisak
People ride on a motorcycle at the entrance of the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in the south of Damascus on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
December 22, 2024, 8:25 am
Amid ruins of Damascus camp-city, Palestinian refugees recall horrors of Assad’s regime
Mahmud Khaled Ajaj describes torture he faced in Syrian prison while Haitham Hassan al-Nada recounts being shot, left for dead as a deserter for not wanting to fight in Syrian army
By Dave Clark
Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)
November 19, 2024, 10:19 am
Rights groups voice concern for health of Nobel prize laureate imprisoned in Iran
Narges Mohammadi is returned to prison two days after undergoing surgery to remove potentially cancerous bone from her leg
By Jon Gambrell
Screen capture from music video of Iranian rap artist Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, aka Tataloo, 2019. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law
May 19, 2024, 3:41 pm
Iran reportedly hands down three years, additional jail terms to rap artist Tataloo
Pop singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo sentenced for disseminating ‘obscene content’; judiciary lists 3-year sentence for blasphemy, but says he also faces other charges
By AFP
Rabbi Gabriel Kretzmer-Seed, right, speaks with volunteers about his work as the Jewish chaplain at Rikers. (NYC Department of Corrections)
April 23, 2024, 10:01 am
At Rikers Island, Jewish volunteers connect with inmates by leading prayer services
Joining grassroots efforts to alleviate the notoriously brutal conditions at NY State’s largest jail is a group from the UWS Base that learns, prays and spends time with prisoners
By julia GERGELY
Illustrative: A Palestinian flag is waved in front of the Colosseum, during a rally in support of the Palestinians in Rome, January 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
March 13, 2024, 10:21 pm
Italy refuses to deport Palestinian suspect to Israel, fearing ‘degrading treatment’
Anan Kamal Afif Yaeesh, 36, will remain in Italian prison during probe of Israeli allegations he planned attacks, funded West Bank’s Tulkarem Brigade
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Police and soldiers stand outside the entrance to Ofer Prison outside Jerusalem, where Palestinian terror convicts will be released as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, November 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 1, 2024, 10:32 am
Israel frees dozens of Palestinians in administrative detention, citing lack of space
All those freed Thursday were set for release in the month of March; Ben Gvir rails against decision, noting its proximity to a West Bank terror attack
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's morality police, on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on September 20, 2022. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
February 13, 2024, 7:12 pm
Iran sentences Mahsa Amini’s uncle to five-year prison sentence
Safa Aeli convicted of taking part in protests, anti-government propaganda and insulting supreme leader Khamenei
By AFP
Bomb parts found in a prison cell in southern Israel, September 20, 2023. (Prison Service)
September 20, 2023, 11:50 pm
Materials for makeshift bomb found in cell of maximum security prisoner
Batteries, wires with metal leads, flammable chemical, schematic and makeshift knife discovered under bed of man serving life sentence; it’s not the first time, Prison Service says
By ToI Staff
Ghislaine Maxwell attends a press conference on the Issue of Oceans in Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, June 25, 2013. (United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP, File)
August 7, 2023, 10:41 pm
Ghislaine Maxwell said receiving prison benefits by touting Jewish heritage
Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, jailed for sex trafficking minors, did not previously identify as a Jew
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, is escorted by prison officials into a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, on May 30, 2023. (Michael Wyke/AP)
June 1, 2023, 3:54 pm
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives at Texas prison for 11-year sentence
Disgraced US biotech entrepreneur, convicted of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars, will serve time at minimum-security federal facility
By AFP
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