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More than 1,800 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen, officials say. - AFPn

More than 1,800 prisoners escape after gang attack on Nigeria jail
In this photo taken on November 23, 2020, an artist removes a tattoo of an inmate at the New Bilibid Prison in Manila. - Heavily-tattooed Philippine inmates wince in pain as fellow prisoners use improvised tattooing machines to cover up symbols identifying their gang affiliation in a skin-deep effort to reduce jail violence. (Photo by Jam STA ROSA / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Philippines prison tattoo, FOCUS by Ron LOPEZ

Philippine prisoners ink over tattoos to combat violence
Relatives of fugitive prisoners who had fled a detention centre gather outside the facility in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020, to enquire about their fate after it was announced that some were recaptured while others had died in the escape. - At least 69 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon on November 21, including five who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, sparking a wide-reaching manhunt, police said. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Dozens at large after Lebanon mass jailbreak
ICRC Director for the Near and Middle East Fabrizio Carboni (C, L) and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths (C, R) seats with Houthi prisoner exchange committee members (L) and Yemeni government delegation members (R) at the end of a week-long meeting on a Yemen prisoner exchange agreement on September 27, 2020 in Glion, western Switzerland. - Both sides in Yemen's war have agreed to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners, the UN mediator during a week of talks in Switzerland said on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Yemen warring sides agree to swap prisoners
(FILES) In this file photo taken during a guided tour organised by Egypt's State Information Service on February 11, 2020, an Egyptian police officer stands at the entrance of the Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo. - 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 Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Pandemic worsens plight of Middle East prisoners
(FILES) This file photo taken on January 14, 2019 shows a child rides his bicycle near the Fatima Masumeh shrine in the holy city of Qom, about 130 kilometres south of the capital Tehran. - Iran closed four key Shiite pilgrimage sites across the Islamic republic on Monday in line with measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, state media reported. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran 'temporarily' frees prisoners as virus toll mounts
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