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Prisons and prisoners

Robert Kennedy's Assassin Denied Parole For 16th Time

Robert Kennedy's Assassin Denied Parole For 16th Time

On Wednesday, Sirhan Sirhan, serving a life sentence for assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole for the 16th time despite a review board recommending he walk free in 2021....

Two Pakistani Citizens Released from Guantanamo After 20 Years

Two Pakistani Citizens Released from Guantanamo After 20 Years

US officials returned two Pakistani brothers to Pakistan on Thursday after detaining them at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades without charging them....

Nicaragua Frees Hundreds of Prisoners, Deports Them to US

Nicaragua Frees Hundreds of Prisoners, Deports Them to US

Nicaragua's government on Thursday freed 222 dissident prisoners and deported them to the US in an unexpected operation that reportedly came as they were stripped of their political rights and citizenship after being declared 'traitors.'...

Guantánamo Detainee Freed to Belize

Guantánamo Detainee Freed to Belize

Majid Khan, a former al-Qaeda courier turned US government witness, has been transferred from the US-run detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Belize, nearly a year after he finished his sentence

Iran Agrees to Pardon 'Tens of Thousands' of Prisoners

Iran Agrees to Pardon 'Tens of Thousands' of Prisoners

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to 'pardon or commute' the sentences of tens of thousands of prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, state media reported on Sunday....