Jail Guards

Russian inmates on Friday took staff hostage at a prison colony in the southern Volgograd region, officials said, the second such incident in a Russian jail since June.

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health.

Iran executed a man on Tuesday after the courts convicted him of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary said.

Police in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district have registered a case against a prison guard for allegedly sexually exploiting a 22-year-old man facing trial for raping a minor, an official said on Sunday.

Hundreds of inmates rioted on Tuesday and took dozens of hostages at the overcrowded Tacumbu prison, the largest in Paraguay, according to authorities and AFP journalists at the scene.

A British Sikh crossbow-armed intruder who pleaded guilty to committing treason after telling royal guards at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a UK court.

Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons on Friday released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute said.

Ecuador's capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage 57 prison guards and police officers on Thursday, officials said.

A Chinese national in Singapore was sentenced to six weeks in jail on Monday for pushing a 56-year-old Indian-origin security officer who fell and fractured his wrist.

Since protests in January over unpaid wages, three migrant workers for the World Cup finals in Qatar have been detained in the Gulf nation.

A special court here has sentenced a 55-year-old man to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life (till remainder of natural life) for sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl.

A joint operation was launched by multiple security forces to catch two prisoners that are on the run after a daring jailbreak from Arunachal Pradesh's Khonsa jail on Sunday evening, which left one constable dead and another injured, said police.

"You were paid by Russia for your treachery," said Judge Mark Wall as he announced the sentence of 13 years and two months at the Old Bailey court in central London.

Madhya Pradesh "serial killer" Shivprasad Dhurve, 18, accused of killing four security guards, has been kept in isolation at the Sagar central jail as other inmates fear him, an official said today.

Bengal job scam: Arpita Mukherjee's food to be tested before serving, jail cell to have round-the-clock guards; Partha Chatterjee's bail plea rejected

Russian inmates on Friday took staff hostage at a prison colony in the southern Volgograd region, officials said, the second such incident in a Russian jail since June.

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health.

Iran executed a man on Tuesday after the courts convicted him of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary said.

Police in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district have registered a case against a prison guard for allegedly sexually exploiting a 22-year-old man facing trial for raping a minor, an official said on Sunday.

Hundreds of inmates rioted on Tuesday and took dozens of hostages at the overcrowded Tacumbu prison, the largest in Paraguay, according to authorities and AFP journalists at the scene.

A British Sikh crossbow-armed intruder who pleaded guilty to committing treason after telling royal guards at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a UK court.

Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons on Friday released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute said.

Ecuador's capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage 57 prison guards and police officers on Thursday, officials said.

A Chinese national in Singapore was sentenced to six weeks in jail on Monday for pushing a 56-year-old Indian-origin security officer who fell and fractured his wrist.

Since protests in January over unpaid wages, three migrant workers for the World Cup finals in Qatar have been detained in the Gulf nation.

A special court here has sentenced a 55-year-old man to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life (till remainder of natural life) for sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl.

A joint operation was launched by multiple security forces to catch two prisoners that are on the run after a daring jailbreak from Arunachal Pradesh's Khonsa jail on Sunday evening, which left one constable dead and another injured, said police.

"You were paid by Russia for your treachery," said Judge Mark Wall as he announced the sentence of 13 years and two months at the Old Bailey court in central London.

Madhya Pradesh "serial killer" Shivprasad Dhurve, 18, accused of killing four security guards, has been kept in isolation at the Sagar central jail as other inmates fear him, an official said today.

Bengal job scam: Arpita Mukherjee's food to be tested before serving, jail cell to have round-the-clock guards; Partha Chatterjee's bail plea rejected