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Georgia ex-president Saakashvili says abused in prison, fears for life
AFP, Published on 09/11/2021
» TBILISI - Georgia's jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, said on Monday he feared for his life after prison guards assaulted him.
Ecuadorans block roads on Day 2 of fuel price protests
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» QUITO - Indigenous and rural Ecuadorans blocked roads in several provinces Wednesday on the second day of protest against soaring fuel prices amid a countrywide state of emergency.
Russia puts torture video whistleblower on wanted list
AFP, Published on 24/10/2021
» MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday placed a former prison inmate who leaked harrowing videos of rape and torture inside a Russian prison on a wanted list.
Inmate who leaked Russia prison rape video seeks French asylum
AFP, Published on 19/10/2021
» ROISSY-CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT (FRANCE) - The former inmate behind a video leak showing alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison said he could no longer keep the explosive revelations to himself, speaking to AFP from France where he is now seeking asylum.
'I am innocent': ex-Nazi guard, 100, tells German court
AFP, Published on 09/10/2021
» BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL (GERMANY) - A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person charged with complicity in the murder of thousands of detainees, told a German court on Friday that he was not guilty.
Prison riot reveals 'systemic' abuse in Russian jails
AFP, Published on 07/10/2021
» MOSCOW - As the flames were dying down in the wake of a deadly riot at a high-security penal colony in Siberia in April 2020, a more brutal wave of violence was brewing.
Four wounded in fresh inmate clash at riot-hit Ecuador prison
AFP, Published on 03/10/2021
» GUAYAQUIL (ECUADOR) - Four people were wounded and police were shot at on Saturday in a new clash between prisoners at the Ecuadorian prison where 118 people were killed just days earlier in the country's deadliest inmate riot.
Police battle for control of Ecuador prison after riot carnage
AFP, Published on 01/10/2021
» GUAYAQUIL (ECUADOR) - Hundreds of police battled Thursday for control of an Ecuador prison where rioting left at least 116 inmates dead, some on them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades.
30 dead in Ecuador's latest prison violence: officials
AFP, Published on 30/09/2021
» GUAYAQUIL (ECUADOR) - Soldiers surrounded a prison in Ecuador Wednesday after 30 inmates were killed, some beheaded, in the latest bloody clash this year between rival gangs in the country's overburdened and understaffed jails.
24 dead in Ecuador prison gun battle: police
AFP, Published on 29/09/2021
» QUITO: At least 24 prisoners were killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, officials said Tuesday.