Provincial Jail

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  Ex Pak PM Imran Khan's Party Backed Candidates Take Oath As Speaker, Deputy Speaker

  Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party-backed independent candidates Babar Saleem Swati and Suriya Bibi on Thursday took the oath as the Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial a

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  Death Count In South Africa Unrest Over Jacob Zuma Jail Term Rises To 32

  A further 22 people have died during unrest raging in South Africa, a provincial official said on Tuesday, taking the national death count from days of violence to 32.

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  One-Time Presidential Hopeful Jailed In South Korean #MeToo Scandal

  A former South Korean provincial governor who once ran for presidential nomination was jailed for three and a half years on Friday for molesting an aide after his earlier acquittal was overturned in one of the country's most high-profile #MeToo cases.

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  Philippines Prison Break: ISIS-Affiliated Group Storm Jail To Free 8 Comrades

  Muslim extremists supporting the Islamic State group freed eight fellow terrorists in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said today.

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  Aide to China's Ex-Security Chief Jailed for 20 Years

  China sentenced a former high-ranking provincial official to 20 years in prison for corruption, a court said, the fourth ally of ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang punished this week.

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  9 Dead, 1 Missing After Philippine Jail Fire

  Nine prisoners were killed when fire ripped through the psychiatric ward of a provincial jail, Philippine authorities said Friday, adding the facility was operating at more than double its capacity.

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  Journalists Face Jail Over Thai Trafficking Report

  Two journalists, including an Australian editor, face jail today as a Thai court is to decide whether they are guilty of defamation over a report implicating the kingdom's navy in human trafficking.

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  Jailed 'Voice of Saddam' Tareq Aziz Dies, Says Provincial Official

  Tareq Aziz, who served as the voice of Saddam Hussein's regime, died in Iraqi hospital today aged 79 after many years of poor health as a convicted prisoner, a provincial official said.

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  Fearing Jailbreak, Pakistan Province Shifts High Profile Prisoners

  Fearing a possible jail break, Pakistan's provincial government of Balochistan has shifted 24 high profile prisoners to Central Jail Mach from District Jail Quetta.

• Baghdad Official Taken by Gunmen: Iraqi Police

  Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad on Saturday, police officers said.

• Pakistan Khyber Government Forms Special Force to Guard Jails

  The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday said it has decided to form a special force to guard sensitive prisons in the restive province.

• Jailed Indian worker freed in Saudi Arabia

  An Indian worker, who was jailed for causing the death of a co-worker four years ago in Saudi Arabia, was released on the direction of a provincial governor

• Inmates escape jail in typhoon-hit Philippine city

  A Philippine general says that inmates have escaped from a provincial jail in the typhoon-hit city of Tacloban after breaking down a jail wall.