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...The recording shows Giorgi was furious because investigators had searched his apartment after his release from jail and seized notes he had written for his legal defence....
...With control of the 336-seat lower house of parliament in play, the PTI will be up against a political old-guard believed to be running with the military’s support....
...“When the guard opened the door and handed over the books to me, I felt liberated; I could read books, they could take me to another world, and that, could transform my life,” she said....
...Ecuador’s prison service warned 125 guards and 14 administrative staff had been taken hostage across five different jails, with 11 later freed....
...He represents the old guard of Pakistani politics....
...Images from the raid showed police forcing their way into the embassy as heavily armed troops stood guard outside....
...and an unknown number of guards were taken hostage following Fito’s disappearance....
...Police forced their way into the embassy late on Friday night as heavily armed troops stood guard outside....
...All 158 guards and 20 administrative staff were released late on Saturday night and were undergoing medical checks, the country’s prison agency said in a statement, after being held hostage in seven jails...
...How he managed to disappear from jail is also uncertain; a government official spoke of a “probable escape”, likely with the involvement of prison guards....
...Most of the estimated 3,800 prisoners in the capital’s National Penitentiary escaped on Saturday, leaving the normally overcrowded jail mostly empty with no guards in sight....
...Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader who has spent time in jail, said she was sceptical that Rwanda could offer asylum seekers what they wanted....
...On Friday, Biden said Washington was still pressing for a six-week ceasefire deal that included the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli jails and greater humanitarian assistance....
...The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps feature as his praetorian guard....
...News round-up Freshfields’ former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail (FT) Zurich’s sale of $20bn life insurance book to PE-backed group collapses (FT) Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian...
...social media of guards seemingly being tortured....
...“I thought the guards might have dressed themselves up as prisoners,” he said....
...In a social media video, Tusk pointed at a billboard advertising jobs for prison guards and said: “They know there will be a lot of work: I will keep my promise.”...
...The Middle East’s most powerful security force was caught off guard....
...That is because the former president’s 2024 campaign is unlike any other: money comes in, but just as quickly, some goes straight out to protect him from jail....
...STC has said it is not seeking a controlling stake in the company, which is led by José María Álvarez-Pallete....
...He denies all of the charges against him, but remains in jail, and is ineligible to contest the vote under a separate corruption charge....
...He also received a 17-month jail sentence, suspended for two years....
...He let out thousands of terrorists from Afghan jails and either cynically or gullibly took the Taliban’s word that they would deny a sanctuary to al-Qaeda....
...She told him he had become a different person since being in jail....
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