49 m. ago At least three dead, a dozen injured, in ‘horrible’ possible prison riot in Georgia medium security facility

At least three inmates have died and multiple are injured after a possible prison riot broke out at Washington State Prison

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66 m. ago Guantanamo detainee is paid 'substantial' compensation by UK after he accused MI5 and MI6 of passing questions to CIA to use in his torture

Abu Zubaydah has been held at the Cuba prison since 2006 despite having never been charged with or convicted of a crime.

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2 h. ago Escape review – notorious Japanese revolutionary tells story of country’s most wanted criminal

Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the run in 1975 after a series of corporate bombingsMasao Adachi is an 86-year-old Japanese film-maker and former revolutionary activist who spent almost 30 years in Lebanese exile due to his former membership of terrorist group the Japanese Red Army in the 1970s; arrested on his return to Japan, after his release from prison he returned to cinema – and has now made this intriguing chamber piece called Tôsô, or Escape, an intensely, sometimes even passionately acted piece of work, imagining the inner life of a man who was once Japan’s most wanted fugitive.It is about the now infamous Satoshi Kirishima who, after his involvement in terrorist attacks on corporate buildings, went on the run from the police in 1975 and for decades lived as a cash-in-hand construction worker under a false name, hiding under the radar but in plain sight. He was never recognised and finally confessed ...

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3 h. ago England’s Ashes has been a disaster but touring Australia with a disability has been ‘too easy’

Going to Australia as a freelance journalist with a form of muscular dystrophy was not without trepidation but an away Ashes was too good to pass up“Australia is not for weak men.” Had I heard Ben Stokes’s words in Brisbane earlier perhaps I wouldn’t have decided to cover the Ashes series as a freelancer. Had I known how England were going to play, I almost certainly wouldn’t.My attendance was not in any way predicated on how well England might do in the series – making decisions based on the potential success of the English cricket team can only lead to madness. But having been born with a form of muscular dystrophy, the physical requirements of an eight-week tour to Australia were more of a consideration. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago 'I ended up in prison because of my addiction, I physically couldn't stop'

Sian Mclear-Dyer's addiction started after a trip to the bingo with work colleagues

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5 h. ago Former Rangers midfielder was in 'bad place' for months but hopes to take new club 'by storm'

The 24-year-old midfielder says he is ready to return, mentally and physically, after a horror car crash in 2024

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6 h. ago NHS alert as people may be risking addiction to common medicine

Overusing nose sprays could worsen symptoms instead of fixing them, leading to dependency

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6 h. ago No staff, no equipment, no medicine: a doctor on returning to Gaza after 665 days in an Israeli prison

Dr Ahmed Muhanna, one of the country’s most senior emergency care consultants, says the scale of destruction he saw on his release brought him to tearsThe only thing that kept Dr Ahmed Muhanna going during his 22 months inside Israeli prisons and detention centres was dreaming of his return to his family and to Gaza. When he was finally released after 665 days as a prisoner, he arrived home to find every place he had returned to in his memories had been obliterated.While in prison, he and the other inmates were “completely cut off from the outside world”, he says. When he was released he was driven over the border and through Gaza to his hospital, the al-Awda. The scale of the destruction he saw “made my skin crawl my chest tightened and my tears began to flow”. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste

I do not need to share Randa Abdel-Fattah’s views to believe that removing her is wrong. This is why I’ve withdrawn from Adelaide writers’ weekIf there has been a bright red thread running through my career, it’s the importance of freedom of speech. It underpinned my life as a journalist and correspondent, became central to the campaign to get me out of prison in Egypt and, perhaps paradoxically, it is why I have reluctantly withdrawn from this year’s Adelaide writers’ week.On Thursday the Adelaide festival board announced it had removed the writer and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the program, not because of anything she was proposing to say at the festival but because of things she said previously, reassessed in the aftermath of the Bondi attack.Peter Greste is a professor of journalism at Macquarie University and the executive director for the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Jan 6 rioter who famously stole lectern from Nancy Pelosi announces bid for office in Florida

The rioter, who filed to run on the fifth anniversary of January 6, served a 75-day prison sentence and one year of supervised release after stealing the lectern.

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16 h. ago Mum went to bingo with work then lost £400,000 and ended up in prison

Sian Mclear-Dyer, 36, from Wallasey, Merseyside, started gambling after she went to bingo with work colleagues - her addiction spiralled and she stole over £320,000

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25 h. ago Woman stabbed one boyfriend, hit another with lamp and warned she'd 'splatter' her step mum

But Rachel Tinsley was freed from prison on the eve of her 40th birthday

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28 h. ago Footballer turned drug dealer who earned six times his wage says 'I'm not Pablo Escobar'

A former Spanish footballer starred for his boyhood club and became an icon in Greece, but his life was derailed when he was arrested for drug trafficking in 2019

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31 h. ago He sexually assaulted a teenager on a bus – her ordeal at his hands had only just begun

Micahel Davies went to prison for the assault but following his release began a horrifying six-year stalking campaign against his victim

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35 h. ago No holds barred! Boxer Muhammad Ali abstained from sex before fights... now scientists say getting intimate prior to a bout may actually enhance sporting performance

Researchers have discovered that making time for romantic physical contact before exercise could actually enhance people's sporting performance.

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36 h. ago Heated Rivalry review – these physically perfect people have so much sex it’s tedious

This steamy queer romance between ice hockey rivals is packed with constant shots of muscular bottoms in fancy hotel rooms. But a bit more character development or emotional investment wouldn’t go amissI suspect that Chala Hunter is still on a recuperative retreat somewhere. Until about May, I would think. For she was the intimacy coordinator on Heated Rivalry and she has earned a break.For those not aware: intimacy coordinators gained prominence in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, when assorted testimonies from actors (largely female) made public and unignorable the shocking fact that actors (largely male) and directors (largely male) will often (largely always) try to get away with more than has been contracted for once they are naked with A N Other person. An intimacy coordinator is there to help arrange scenes and advocate for actors. Think of them as somewhere between a bureaucrat and a contraceptive. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Shoppers buy less food and booze over festive period in Britain's first 'fat jab Christmas'

Although supermarket sales in December rose 3.8 per cent to a record £13.8billion, fuelled by food price inflation, the volume of physical items bought declined, according research firm Worldpanel.

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37 h. ago Nearly 630 drivers dodge jail in last five years despite being found criminally responsible for death crashes

An average of ten a month are given community service orders, suspended sentences or fines instead of being sent to prison for triggering killer car crashes.

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37 h. ago JK Rowling backs killer hairdresser in prison trans hate crime row

JK ROWLING is backing a killer hairdresser’s bid to sue prison chiefs after being cleared of an alleged hate crime against a transgender murderer. The billionaire Harry Potter author’s legal team have contacted Jayney Sutherley’s lawyers over the row that involves Alexandria Stewart — born Alan Baker. Sutherley, 52, was accused by Stewart, 33, of...

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37 h. ago How to watch every episode of chilling true crime series making fans squirm

The newest instalment has made fans feel physically sick

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