Prisoner slashed in court cells
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Detectives investigate a knife attack on a prisoner in the cells below the High Court in Glasgow.
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A witness in a torture case tells the Old Bailey he was imprisoned by an alleged Afghan warlord and whipped every night.
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A rapist is jailed after a jury hears how his victim locked herself in a room and sent a text message plea for help.
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A man is jailed for conducting an arson campaign against people he thought had links with the vivisection industry.
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A rape defendant stabbed his lawyer in court with a makeshift weapon during jury selection, wounding the man.
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of the beatings and intimidation he experienced while in prison, in an interview published in The ...Comment
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Leaked study following boy's death says staff provoke young inmates so they can use force.
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Equatorial Guinea has told a court he and his comrades had been chained like animals and tortured into confessing. and hand-cuffs to plead their innocence on Thursday.
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Staff Sgt Ivan Frederick, 38, admitted eight charges of humiliating and abusing the inmates at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad. In one incident he punched a prisoner so hard in the chest that he needed resuscitation.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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Â· Court hears of 'honour killing' rape and torture Â· Jokes and laughter in description of murder
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Five prisoners who died in a an overcrowded jail in central Kenya were beaten to death, post mortem results reveal.
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A Navy medic who served at a Marine detention facility in Iraq testified Tuesday during a court-martial that he witnessed guards beating newly arrived inmates to intimidate them.
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Five prisoners were killed and at least 18 others wounded Tuesday in a confrontation between rival gangs in an overcrowded men's prison, officials said.
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One is accused of punching an Iraqi prisoner. Another faces allegations that he kicked, choked and humiliated captives.
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An inmate injured in a deadly Afghan prison shootout will be questioned to determine if he and four comrades, all once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, were trying to escape or were attempting to attack three American prisoners, the jail warden said
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Watching and possessing images of rape and sexual torture is to be made a criminal offence, punishable with a jail term of up to three years.