Prison Uprising

Inmates at a Delaware prison were still holding two correctional staff members hostage on Wednesday night after releasing two others during an uprising at the facility, state officials said.

Security officers restored order Saturday at a prison in the central English city of Birmingham a day after an estimated 600 inmates seized control and launched a destructive rampage.

At least 200 prisoners escaped from a minimum-security Brazil prison during an uprising on Thursday, with about half recaptured within hours of the prison break, state prison officials said.

Nearly 13,000 Syrians, including 108 children, have been tortured to death in government prisons since the uprising began in March 2011, a monitoring group said on Friday.

A prominent Egyptian activist who came to fame during the country's 2011 uprising was sentenced to one month in prison on charges of insulting the police, a court official said Thursday.

Ukraine's glamorous but polarising ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko was triumphantly released from prison during the pro-Western uprising in Kiev but is now a longshot in Sunday's presidential ballot due to mistrust of the corruption-stained old guard.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced deposed president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on corruption charges, in one of two trials after the 2011 uprising that ended his rule.

Three leading Egyptian activists were sentenced to three years in prison each on Sunday in a case brought over their role in recent protests.

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and 132 others, will stand trial for a prison break and the murder of officers during the 2011 uprising, prosecution sources said.

Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi was today remanded to a further 30 days in custody on charges of jailbreak and espionage during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

The Syrian authorities freed on Tuesday 275 prisoners who were "involved" in the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, state TV reported.

Hosni Mubarak's condition stabilized Tuesday but his lawyer said the 84-year old former president does not trust his doctors in the prison hospital and fears they are out to kill him. There have been conflicting reports about Mubarak's condition since a court convicted him on June 2 of failing to prevent the killings of protesters in the uprising ...

Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, sentenced to life in prison for involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year, enjoyed near absolute power for three decades. From being Egypt's pharaoh of modern times, 84-year-old Mubarak became a prisoner serving a life sentence.

One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighbourhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant.

Inmates at a Delaware prison were still holding two correctional staff members hostage on Wednesday night after releasing two others during an uprising at the facility, state officials said.

Security officers restored order Saturday at a prison in the central English city of Birmingham a day after an estimated 600 inmates seized control and launched a destructive rampage.

At least 200 prisoners escaped from a minimum-security Brazil prison during an uprising on Thursday, with about half recaptured within hours of the prison break, state prison officials said.

Nearly 13,000 Syrians, including 108 children, have been tortured to death in government prisons since the uprising began in March 2011, a monitoring group said on Friday.

A prominent Egyptian activist who came to fame during the country's 2011 uprising was sentenced to one month in prison on charges of insulting the police, a court official said Thursday.

Ukraine's glamorous but polarising ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko was triumphantly released from prison during the pro-Western uprising in Kiev but is now a longshot in Sunday's presidential ballot due to mistrust of the corruption-stained old guard.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced deposed president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on corruption charges, in one of two trials after the 2011 uprising that ended his rule.

Three leading Egyptian activists were sentenced to three years in prison each on Sunday in a case brought over their role in recent protests.

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and 132 others, will stand trial for a prison break and the murder of officers during the 2011 uprising, prosecution sources said.

Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi was today remanded to a further 30 days in custody on charges of jailbreak and espionage during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

The Syrian authorities freed on Tuesday 275 prisoners who were "involved" in the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, state TV reported.

Hosni Mubarak's condition stabilized Tuesday but his lawyer said the 84-year old former president does not trust his doctors in the prison hospital and fears they are out to kill him. There have been conflicting reports about Mubarak's condition since a court convicted him on June 2 of failing to prevent the killings of protesters in the uprising ...

Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, sentenced to life in prison for involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year, enjoyed near absolute power for three decades. From being Egypt's pharaoh of modern times, 84-year-old Mubarak became a prisoner serving a life sentence.

One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighbourhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant.