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28 results for "Prison" · Crisis

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States17d ago

Culprit carried out physical assault on Prison in Granite Bay [4 sources]

8.2/10·GDELT Events Historical

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Actor carried out physical assault on Prison in Canada [10 sources]

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CriminalCrisis13d ago

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin deployed the ransomware against multiple U.S. victims between April and December 2023.

7.2/10·The Hacker News

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇺Cuba6d ago

A government admitted Thursday that a political opponent died in prison, revealing the death almost a year after it occurred — a delayed disclosure that has drawn immediate scrutiny over possible concealment of conditions or circumstances surrounding the death.

6.5/10·14ymedio (Cuba — Spanish)

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States14d ago

State Prison carried out assault in Philadelphia [10 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States15d ago

State Prison carried out assault in San Diego [6 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States15d ago

United States carried out assault in Florida State Prison [4 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States15d ago

United States carried out assault in Florida State Prison [4 sources]

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PoliticalCrisis🇺🇸United States22d ago

State Prison engaged in clashes in Riverside County [6 sources]

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PoliticalCrisis🇺🇸United States22d ago

State Prison engaged in clashes in Riverside County [6 sources]

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PoliticalCrisis🇸🇴Somalia 🇲🇱Mali 🇴🇲Oman5d ago

Three journalists—Mohamed Bulbul, Abdihafid Nor Barre, and Abdishakur Mohamed Mohamud—were arrested and beaten by Somalia's counter-terrorism police in Mogadishu after reporting on a woman allegedly tortured in prison. They were detained Friday evening at a restaurant, interrogated, and released early Saturday morning. All three were reporting for The Guardian.

6.2/10·The Guardian World·Mogadishu, Banaadir

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PoliticalCrisis🇹🇩Chad6d ago

Eight opposition leaders in Chad have been sentenced to eight years in prison while the Supreme Court simultaneously dissolved their anti-Déby political coalition, in a sweeping crackdown on organized dissent against President Mahamat Idriss Déby's government.

5.5/10·AfricaNews·N'Djamena, N'Djamena

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PoliticalCrisis🇻🇪Venezuela6d ago

Venezuela's Ministry for Prison Services confirmed the death of 51-year-old merchant and political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, who died in state custody nearly ten months ago. His family had filed forced disappearance complaints for over a year before authorities acknowledged his death.

5.5/10·MercoPress

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PoliticalCrisis14d ago

Myanmar's detained civilian leader received a one-sixth reduction to her prison term as the regime granted amnesty to over 1,500 prisoners on the Full Moon Day of Kasone.

4.5/10·The Irrawaddy

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CriminalCrisis🇷🇸Serbia6d ago

Osijek court sentences Zeljko Travica to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed in Ceric and Mirkovci in 1991, when captured Croat fighters were abused and executed by Serb forces.

4.1/10·BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network)

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CriminalCrisis🇦🇿Azerbaijan8d ago

Azerbaijan prison dispatches: isolation, self-harm, silence — the psychological toll of detention Imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Ulviyya Ali writes of the psychological toll on Azerbaijani prisoners in a letter dated one year after her arrest.

4.1/10·OC Media (South Caucasus)

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HealthCrisis🇮🇷Iran12d ago

Activist Narges Mohammadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, remained in unstable health on Saturday (February 2), a day after being transferred from prison to a hospital in Iran due to what the Iranian foundation, run by her family, called a "catastrophic deterioration of her health, including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a serious heart attack." Read more (05/02/2026 - 12:33 pm)

4.1/10·Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil — Portuguese)·Tehran

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CriminalCrisis🇷🇴Romania 🇴🇲Oman 🇷🇺Russia13d ago

Russian authorities have decided to extradite to Romania a criminal accused of serious crimes, detained through Interpol, RIA Novosti reports, citing lawyer Lilia Mamasheva. The criminal is Vasile Rodideal, a Romanian citizen, sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in prison for serious crimes.

4.1/10·Digi24 (Romania)

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MilitaryCrisis🇲🇱Mali8d ago

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters storm Mali prison, block food supplies to Bamako Fighters attack 'Africa's Alcatraz', which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to capital.

3.5/10·Al Jazeera World

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PoliticalCrisis13d ago

Brazil’s Congress has voted to reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, though the highly controversial decision is expected to be appealed. Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election, and the move to shorten his sentence is widely seen as a setback for current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as reported by Liza Kaminov.

3.5/10·France 24 English

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HealthCrisis14d ago

Aivars Lembergs – the former mayor of Ventspils who has been sanctioned by the U.S. and U.K., and who has been sentenced to prison by Latvian courts more than once following an astonishingly protracted trial – has had his latest legal manoeuvre unceremoniously kicked into touch by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

3.5/10·LSM English (Latvia)

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CriminalCrisis🇻🇪Venezuela5d ago

After 16 months of enforced disappearance, and at the insistence of his mother Carmen Teresa Navas, the Ministry of Prison Service reported that Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, 51, had died on July 24, 2025 from secondary acute respiratory failure. Lawyers and human rights organizations point to a "chain of [...] The entry A "chain of complicity" hid Victor Hugo Quero Navas alive and dead for 16 months was published first on Runrun.es: In defense of your human rights.

3.1/10·Runrunes (Venezuela — Spanish)

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CriminalCrisis🇺🇸United States5d ago

Synopsis: Although känaka maoli and other Pacific Islanders make up a minority of Hawaiæi’s population, we remain disproportionately represented within the state’s prison system and in police violence statistics at nearly twice our share of those populations. How do we keep our brothers and sisters alive and free from incarceration?

3.1/10·Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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CriminalCrisis🇻🇪Venezuela6d ago

Under a strong security deployment, the Venezuelan authorities executed this Friday, May 8, the exhumation of the remains of Victor Hugo Quero Navas in the Jardín de la Puerta Cemetery. The procedure took place behind closed doors just one day after the Ministry for the Prison Service admitted that Quero Navas, […] The entry Exhuman the remains of Víctor Quero while students and relatives of political prisoners demand justice was first published in Runrun.es: In defense of your human rights.

3.1/10·Runrunes (Venezuela — Spanish)

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CriminalCrisis🇴🇲Oman13d ago

A man was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a woman and robbing the Yellowknife Liquor Store and Circle K with a knife. The post Man sentenced to three years for Yellowknife assault, robberies first appeared on Cabin Radio .

3.1/10·Cabin Radio NWT

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