Up to 40 prisoners escape from jail in East Timor
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DILI, East Timor  - About 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in East Timor on Saturday, officials said, adding to security concerns in the tiny nation as it prepares for elections following political turmoil and violence last year.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from jail, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said.
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An attempted escape at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg of South Africa has been thwarted and the warders held hostage have been freed, a warder said on Monday.
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Indonesian authorities have stepped up security at the border with East Timor to prevent a rebel East Timor military leader who escaped from jail from entering the country, a report said.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (BBC News) - A Belgian convict who has escaped prison on three prior occasions was recaptured in the neighbouring Netherlands Tuesday. He had escaped from Ittre prison on Sunday in a daring breakout involving several accomplices, a getaway car, a helicopter and considerable confusion on the part of officials. Nordin Benallal was recaptured in The Hague on Tuesday, after being cornered in a motorcycle showroom. His brief flirt with freedom came after his fourth escape from prison. Dutch police said that Benallal and another man had been arrested after police fired warning shots. He is expected to be returned to Belgian custody on Wenesday.
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A labor leader who led a failed oil strike to oust President Hugo Chavez has escaped from prison, prompting troops and police to secure ports, airports and embassies to prevent one of Venezuela's most prominent prisoners from fleeing country.
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Police used tear gas to force 46 inmates out of a prison area where they had barricaded themselves and set fire to mattresses and books, authorities said.
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Two inmates escape from prison by scaling a fence with a homemade ladder.
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More than 600 prisoners are freed from India's biggest prison, in Delhi, because of overcrowding, officials say.
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UN police and international peacekeepers are continuing the hunt for East Timor's rebel military leader Major Alfredo Reinado as New Zealand denied it was responsible for guarding the prison from which he escaped.
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Nearly 300 communist prisoners escape in an armed jailbreak in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police say.
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International police and troops in East   Timor were searching on Thursday for rebel leader Major Alfredo   Reinado after a mass jailbreak raised serious concern about   fragile security in the fledgling nation.
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Nearly 40 people are missing after being held in secret CIA prisons, a report by Human Rights Watch claims.
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At least 100,000 people have fled their homes in East Timor&#039;s capital because of days of violence, a spokeswoman for a group of aid agencies said Wednesday.
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The aftermath of the latest mission to catch East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison Friday in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four inmates once suspected of belonging to the al-Qaida terror organization.
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FORMER East Timor governor Abilio Jose Soares has been released from jail after a court overturned his conviction over the bloodshed accompanying the island&#39;s UN-backed independence referendum.