KATHMANDU, Nov 16: A prisoner in Sindhuli Jail has died.

JANAKPURDHAM, March 1: A prisoner who escaped after jumping off a police van in Dhanusha has been arrested. Rajababu Mukhiya, a permanent resident of Sabala municipality-13 Kiratpur, who escaped after jumping off the police van of Area Police Office, Sabaila, while being taken to police station was arrested.

LALITPUR, July 1: A man arrested on charge of rape has committed suicide in the custody of Metropolitan Police Circle in Satdobato on Wednesday morning.

KIEV/MOSCOW, DEC 29: Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have started an all-for-all prisoner swap, after which all remaining prisoners of the five-year conflict should return home, the office of Ukraine’s president said on Sunday.

KIEV, Dec 4 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he wanted to agree an exchange with Russia of all remaining prisoners when he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Paris next week.

KABUL, Nov 19 : Taliban insurgents released two Western hostages - Kevin King from the United States and Timothy Weeks from Australia - on Tuesday in a prisoner exchange deal with the Afghan government, two Afghan officials said.

KHOTANG, July 8: A prisoner has been found dead on Sunday evening in the toilet of Khotang District Prison.

SAO PAULO, May 28: At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 dead the day before, authorities said.

YANGON, April 17: Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners from jails on Wednesday, after the president announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year

HUMLA, June 8: One of the two prisoners who had absconded from District Police Office’s cell was arrested.

PARIS, Nov 18: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in France on Saturday from Saudi Arabia, seeking to dismiss fears that he had been held against his will and forced to resign by Saudi authorities.

DHARAN, August 28: A prisoner charged with incest has committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison bathroom.

SHENYANG, July 13: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent political prisoner, died Thursday at a hospital in the country’s northeast, officials said. He was 61.