Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 21:58
A Libyan security official says that over 54 detainees have escaped from a prison in the capital Tripoli due to a security failure.
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Egypt`s Mohamed Morsi will go on trial on January 28 with 130 others over a jailbreak during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, judicial sources said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 07:33
Fifty-five inmates escaped from an overcrowded jail in Ecuador but 20 were swiftly recaptured, authorities said.
Last Updated: Sunday, September 15, 2013, 12:08
One prisoner was killed and seven were injured in a jailbreak attempt in Myanmar, state media reported Sunday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 21:50
The government in Pakistan`s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday warned prisoners who escaped during a recent jailbreak that they would face terrorism charges if they did not surrender within 15 days.
Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 11:42
Jaishankar, a 36-year-old undertrial facing more than two dozen criminal charges including rape and murder, gave the officials and guards at the high security Parappana Agrahara Central prison the slip in the wee hours
Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 16:42
Four Pakistani policemen were arrested today for alleged negligence during last month`s daring attack by the Taliban on a high-security jail that led to the escape of nearly 250 inmates, including 35 hard-core militants.
Last Updated: Monday, July 29, 2013, 11:42
As many as 349 inmates, escaped last week from Baghdad`s major prison during assault by Islamic militants, were recaptured, said chief security officer of Baghdad.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 28, 2013, 09:25
In a major jailbreak, nearly 1,200 convicts, most of them facing serious charges, escaped from a prison near Libyan city of Benghazi Saturday, a security official said.
Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2013, 17:35
Militants attacked two Iraqi prisons including the notorious Abu Ghraib in a bid to free inmates, sparking all-night clashes in which at least 41 people were killed, officials said on Monday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 20:43
Malaysia went on high alert after four Indonesian terrorists escaped from a prison in Indonesia’s Medan city during a riot last week.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 23, 2013, 19:13
An Egyptian court asked the Interpol to arrest Hamas and Hezbollah militants who stormed a prison in 2011 and freed 34 Islamist leaders, including President Mohammed Mursi.
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