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Film festival offers Tunisian inmates rare escape
NEW YORK: In this file photo, this aerial image shows the Rikers Island jail complex in the Bronx borough of New York City. - AFP n

Ex-inmates decry worsening state of NY's 'hellhole' jail
TANGERANG: This handout picture taken and released by the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights shows a prison in Tangerang, after a fire broke out and killed 41 inmates. - AFP n

Fire at overcrowded Indonesia jail kills 41
BAMAKO: A detainee tries on a dress in the sewing atelier of the Bolle re-education and rehabilitation detention centre for women in Bamako on May 21, 2021. Bolle is one of the only female prisons in the semi-arid Sahel, a poor African region which has been plagued by a brutal jihadist conflict since 2012. - AFPn

In Mali women's prison, inmates face a long wait
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador: Relatives of the prisoners at the Zone 8 Deprivation of Liberty Center are seen as they wait for news, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. At least 50 inmates died in riots at three prisons in Ecuador on Tuesday, police said. -- AFPn

At least 75 inmates dead in Ecuador prison gang riots
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden speaks about his racial equity agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, DC. President Biden signed executive actions Tuesday on housing and justice reforms, including a directive to the Department of Justice to end its use of private prisons. - AFPn

Biden to end the use of private prisons for US federal inmates
(FILES) In this file photo taken during a guided tour organised by the Egyptian State Information Service on November 20, 2019, inmates receiving medical treatment at the clinic of Borg el-Arab prison near the Egyptian city of Alexandria. - As governments in the Middle East isolate their populations to prevent the spread of coronavirus, attention is turning the region's jails where detainees face a more punishing form of lockdown. Some Middle Eastern governments have released prisoners as part of their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, while others have ignored pressure to do so. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)

Virus fear haunts Egypt cramped jails
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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TUNIS: President of Tunisia Kais Saied receives Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya. — KUNA
Tunisian president receives Kuwaiti foreign minister