The Bassiouni family say they remain uncertain of the details around news of Sheikh Abdu-Salaam Bassiouni’s impending release from the Torah Prison in Egypt. On Saturday, an Egyptian court ruled in favour of his release but it has yet to be enacted. The Egyptian-South African citizen has been detained in[…]
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been discharged from a private hospital, the Department of Correctional Services said on Friday. This was Dalindyebo’s second hospital visit since he began his 12-year prison sentence at the East London Maximum Correctional Centre. The department of correctional services confirmed that the King had been[…]
Lest we forget… 11 February 1990. Heady days they were. What with De Klerk’s sudden capitulation and the unbanning of the anti-apartheid movement. They were moments to cherish; it was history being made, and were we part of that history – as journalists were we recording it, we were documenting[…]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinian journalists and relatives of jailed Palestinians on Wednesday demanded immediate intervention to save Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq. A sit-in was held for the 33-year-old journalist and father of two, just as the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem held a session ruling to delay[…]
AbaThembu King Buyelakhaya Dalindyebo is expected to present himself at the Mthatha prison to start serving his 12-year jail sentence on Wednesday, despite his petition to the justice ministry to reopen his case. The ministry said on Wednesday it was considering the petition from his lawyer Yasmin Omar, but that[…]
Israeli authorities released a well-known Palestinian rights activist and journalist on Thursday after being held for 18 months under administrative detention, locals told Ma’an. Nidal Abu Aker, who has served a total of 14 non-consecutive years in Israeli prison, was released to his family in Duheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem.[…]
The Pentagon is expected to unveil a long-awaited plan this week outlining how it would close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite fierce resistance in Congress to President Barack Obama’s push to shutter the facility, officials say. The plan would have four sections, one detailing potential U.S. alternatives[…]
Since the beginning of October, hundreds of young men from Jerusalem have spent the night in Oz – not the magical fairy-tale land, but a police station in Jabal al-Mukaber. Like the rest of occupied East Jerusalem, the neighbourhood is mired in neglect and has become a scene of regular[…]
An Israeli court has sentenced a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel to 11 months in jail on charges of “incitement”. Sheikh Raed Salah will have to report to an Israeli prison on November 11 as per the court sentencing instructions. “If going to jail is the price we[…]
It is unclear when Oscar Pistorius will be released from Kgosi Mampuru II Prison in Pretoria should he be granted parole. Spokesperson for Correctional Services, Manelisi Wolela, said he could not shed light on the process as the department took instruction from the chairperson of the parole review board. Pistorius[…]
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