prisoners

September 15, 2021

Lawyers say Palestinian prisoners were beaten after capture

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Lawyers for two Palestinians who were captured after escaping from an Israeli prison last week…

July 18, 2021

DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) – Iran insisted on Sunday that a prisoner swap deal has been agreed with the United…

July 13, 2021

DUBAI, July 13 (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it was holding talks on prisoner exchanges with the United States…

May 3, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Iran are in active talks over the release of prisoners, a person familiar…

April 23, 2021

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan released 16 people detained earlier this month over an alleged foreign-backed conspiracy linked to a…

March 9, 2021

CANBERRA (Reuters) – A British-Australian academic who spent two years detained in Iran said on Tuesday she was kept in…

February 11, 2021

Turkey hit back at the United States on Thursday, after Washington called for Ankara to release jailed philanthropist Osman Kavala. Kavala has…

January 24, 2021

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides Sunday resumed United Nations-backed negotiations over a prisoner swap, the world body said, more…

December 26, 2020

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s rivals kicked off a UN-brokered prisoner exchange, which was part of a cease-fire agreement they inked…

December 15, 2020

Security forces in a police station in the Egyptian city of Ras Ghareb on Red Sea reportedly foiled an escape…