Jailed militant makes overture
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Marwan Barghouti, the popular militant leader imprisoned by Israel for his role in the Palestinian uprising, is relaying messages to new PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that could
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Officials are planning to propose a plea-bargaining system like that used in the United States which could see alleged terrorists get reduced gaol sentences.
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A detained Iranian-American told reporters visiting Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Tuesday that he expected to be released soon after being held in solitary confinement since May.
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A senior Muslim negotiator involved in trying to free Ken Bigley, the British hostage in Iraq, has expressed guarded optimism he will be freed, and the Irish government
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The brother of British hostage Ken Bigley said today he was looking into reports that a new Iraqi militant group had intervened to help negotiate the engineerâs release.
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An al-Qaeda militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan turned up in an online video
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DOUAR ESCUELA, Morocco  - Neighbors of a Moroccan suspected suicide bomber portray him as a religious man who tried in vain to lift his family out of poverty after his release from a prison term for membership of a militant group.
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He may yet drop out, but an imprisoned militant's challenge highlights the political shackles on the U.S.-favored Mahmoud Abbas
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The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday intervened in efforts to secure the release of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley by calling on his kidnappers to contact him.
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Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan urges his PKK followers to observe a new ceasefire.
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Published: 27/11/2006 - 08:16:22 AM Send to a friend Mirza Tahir Hussain A Briton who spent 18 years in a Pakistani prison facing the possibility of execution today spoke of the dramatic events which landed him ...Comment
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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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A Muslim negotiator involved in trying to free British hostage Ken Bigley has expressed guarded optimism he will be freed, it is reported.
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The home office will ask that a foreign terror suspect released from jail under mental health grounds is sent back to prison.
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Prisoners at a US jail in Afghanistan communicate via video link with their families for the first time.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge will announce Al Qaeda recruit's long-awaited prison sentence.