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| Dec.21 |
Belgium |
Al Qaeda jail break thwarted| Police arrested 14 Muslim extremists after uncovering a plot to free an al Qaeda suspect from prison using weapons and explosives | |
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| Jun.8 |
European Union |
CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed'| Dick Marty, a Council of Europe investigator, says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania | | |
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| May.31 |
Italy |
Inmates seek death penalty| Hundreds of prisoners serving life sentences have called on President Napolitano to bring back the death penalty | |
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| Mar.11 |
Netherlands |
Milosevic found dead in cell Former Yugoslav President has been found dead in Hague where he was being tried on war crimes charges
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Milosevic was found dead for several hours.
He rose to the top of Yugoslav politics in the 1980.
Elected Serbian president in 1990, Milosevic ruled with an iron grip until his overthrow in 2000.
Next year he was transferred to the Hague and went on trial in 2002.
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| Jan.19 |
England |
Blair says abuse photos 'shocking' British Prime Minister described pictures of Iraqis abused by British soldiers as 'shocking and appalling'
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Iraq prison abuse sparks outrage
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| Jan.13 |
England |
Anger as 'Dr. Death' found hanged| Serial killer Harold Shipman hanged himself using bed sheets from the window bars in his cell | |
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| Dec.15 |
Russia |
Chechen chief dead in labour camp Salman Raduyev serving a life sentence for terrorism and murder has died in a high security hard labour camp
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| Sep.19 |
Netherlands |
Fortuyn accused ends hunger strike The animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf charged with killing populist politician has ended a hunger strike after 69 days
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| Jul.16 |
Netherlands |
Fortuyn accused on hunger strike Volkert van der Graaf, accused of murdering right-wing politician, has been put under medical supervision
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| Mar.28 |
France |
Paris gunman commits suicide Richard Durn has killed himself by leaping through a police station window
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| Jan.21 |
European Union |
EU presses US on prisoner rights EU has said America must treat al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters held at its military base in Cuba as POWs
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Afghan captives start detention
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| Aug.18 |
UN Tribunal |
Wife visits Milosevic for 60 Mirjana Markovic and grandson visited the former Yugoslav president in detention to celebrate his 60th birthday
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| May.1 |
Turkey |
Turkey urged to ease prison crisis EU has warned country to resolve a dispute with inmates in which 20 hunger strikers have died
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| Apr.28 |
Turkey |
Prison hunger strike The death toll in has reached 20 as protest against transfer from large wards to new prisons
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| Apr.11 |
Serbia |
Milosevic taken to hospital Former president was having heart problems caused by high blood pressure. He is facing corruption charges
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| Feb.7 |
Scotland |
Lockerbie bomber on hunger strike Megrahi is appealing his conviction which carried a sentence of life imprisonment
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| Dec.21 |
Turkey |
Forces regain jail Security forces regained control of Canakkale jail after 3 day stand-off iwith hunger-striking prisoners
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| Dec.19 |
Turkey |
5 die as police storm jails Security forces stormed 20 prisons in an attempt to break a 2-month-old hunger strike by 200 inmates
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