71 - 80 of 114 results for "prison escape"

  1. 71. news | 15 Apr 2013

    France, Belgium hunt convict after explosive jailbreak

    By AFP

    » Police in France and Belgium are intensively searching for a dangerous convicted bank robber who dynamited his way out of a French prison on the weekend with the help of as-yet unidentified accomplices.

  2. 72. news | 27 Mar 2013

    Flamboyant former Japanese Internet tycoon leaves jail

    By AFP

    » Japan's one-time maverick Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie used Twitter Wednesday to announce his release from prison after serving nearly two years for accounting fraud.

  3. 73. news | 17 May 2013

    Israeli murderer returns home

    By Online Reporters

    » An Israeli who was sentenced to life in prison for dismembering his ex-wife and dumping her body in the Chao Phraya River has returned to his home country after receiving a royal pardon from His Majesty the King.

  4. 74. news | 10 May 2013

    10 convicted over Myanmar unrest

    By Online Reporters

    » A group of 10 Buddhist men from Myanmar’s Rakhine State have been sentenced to between nine months and three years in prison for involvement in the sectarian violence that shook the town of Kyauk Taw last year.

  5. 75. news | 29 Apr 2013

    Cancer victim faces China land battle

    By AFP

    » His frail body is ravaged by cancer and age, his wife and son are in a Chinese prison and Yao Baohua is awaiting trial himself, but he is still determined to fight for his house and land.

  6. 76. news | 16 May 2013

    Death row inmates freed of leg shackles

    JUSTICE

    By King-oua Laohong, Newspaper section: News

    » More than 560 inmates, most of them on death row, have been unshackled at the high-security Bang Khwang Central Prison in Nonthaburi.

  7. 77. news | 30 Apr 2013

    US ups medics at Guantanamo over hunger strike

    By AFP

    » Extra medical staff have been sent to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to help address a hunger strike that has spread to nearly two-thirds of the detainees, authorities said.

  8. 78. news | 23 Apr 2013

    Van driver held for attempted rape

    By Online Reporters

    » NONTHABURI – Police on Tuesday arrested a public van driver who was recently released from prison, and charged him with trying to rape a female passenger.

  9. 79. news | 01 May 2013

    Obama vows to close Gitmo - again

    By AFP

    » WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that the prison at Guantanamo Bay is damaging US interests and vowed to renew a push to close the jail, amid a widening hunger strike among inmates.

  10. 80. news | 30 Mar 2013

    Supoj robbery leader jailed

    CRIME

    Newspaper section: News

    » The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced the mastermind of the gang that robbed the home of former transport permanent secretary Supoj Saplom in November 2011 to 12 years in prison, commuted from 18 years.

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