Tag: prisoners
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Exchange between Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners take place
All 20 Israeli hostages have been released with Israel currently in the process of releasing Palestinian prisoners. Up to 2,000 Palestinian prisoners are expected to be released in exchange of the last remaining and living 20 Israeli hostages and the dead bodies of the rest. Busloads of Palestinian prisoners have been released and sent to…
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100,000 people died in Syria’s prisons since 2011: Sednaya prison officers rounded up
Stories of untold horror keep emerging from the thousands of prisoners that have been freed from Syria’s prisons. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that up to 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s prisons since the start of the Syrian Revolution in 2011. Many prisoners freed from Sednaya prison are unable to talk…
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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina dies in Russian custody
Viktoria Roshchina, A Ukrainian journalist who was captured in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine on August 3rd 2023, has died in Russian custody. She was earmarked to return to Ukraine from Moscow on a prison-exchange deal with Ukraine. As of last July, at least thirty Ukrainian journalists were in custody in Russian prisons. At least another…
