The police who are accused of beating Kelly Thomas to death need to be treated the same as any alleged killers — prosecuted, and if convicted, sent to prison.

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Opinion: Words to break a father’s heart

The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

Once exiled, nettlesome prisoners of conscience, like Chen Guangcheng, almost invariably lose their ability to grab headlines in the West and to command widespread sympathy both in China and abroad.

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For China, Chen Guangcheng’s Exile Is One Less Headache

Former media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison in Miami after serving just over three years for defrauding investors.

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Eskinder Nega has been imprisoned since September and his wife, Serkalem Fasil, accepted a press freedom award from PEN America on his behalf.

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Eskinder Nega, Ethiopian Journalist, Honored by PEN

An imprisoned journalist, who could face the death penalty for criticising Ethiopia’s human rights record, is given a prestigious freedom of expression award.

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Jailed Ethiopian writer honoured

A Colombian woman claiming to be a Farc rebel says the left-wing guerrilla group is holding missing French journalist Romeo Langlois as a “prisoner of war”.

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‘Farc rebels’ make kidnap claim

The PSNI helicopter and dog handlers were involved in a border search operation on Tuesday after three inmates escaped from an open prison in County Cavan.

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Arrests follow open prison escape

The Israel Prison Service says more than 1,300 Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike, more than a week after they began their protest.

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Palestinian inmate strike ongoing

The first and only time I met Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., he was still undercover and in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s all-powerful operations directorate. The agency had summoned me to its Langley headquarters and his mission was to talk me out of running an article I had just finished reporting about CIA secret prisons — the “black sites” abroad where the agency put al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be interrogated in isolation, beyond the reach and protections of U.S. law. Read full article > >

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Former CIA spy boss made an unhesitating call to destroy interrogation tapes

A court in Egypt upholds a three-month prison sentence handed to leading comic actor Adel Imam, convicted of insulting Islam in his films and plays.

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Egypt comedian’s sentence upheld

Charles W. Colson — who spent seven months in prison for Watergate-era offenses and became one of the most influential social reformers of the 20th century — was the most thoroughly converted person I’ve ever known. Read full article > >

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Charles Colson found freedom in prison

A prison officer who was found naked in bed with a missing inmate is convicted of helping him abscond from jail.

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Prisoners at a jail in north-eastern Brazil release more than 100 people taken hostage, as the authorities say they will investigate their complaints.

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Hostages released at Brazil jail

Durham Prison is facing “troubling” drugs problems, with as many as one in three prisoners testing positive in drug tests, inspectors say.

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Prison drugs problem ‘troubling’