Prisoner News

Welikada - A prisoner at the high-security Welikada jail in Colombo, Sri Lanka tried to hide a cellphone in his rectum, during a search by the guards. All would have been fine, but the darn thing decided to ring.

There are conflicting reports about whether Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, could be headed home to Canada to finish serving out his sentence.

Melbourne - In December 2010, on International Human Rights Day, Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One year later, as informed by a press release from PEN International, he and more than thirty other writers remain in prison.

New York - A Korean woman claims she was kept a prisoner for 12 years by a Buddhist Monk and his family in their Queens homes and temple. Sixty-year old Oak-Jin Oh has now filed a lawsuit in federal court, after a "friend" of the family helped her to escape.

Chetumal - In possibly one of the most creative yet uncomfortable ways to escape from prison, a half-naked Mexican prisoner was recently caught curled up in his girlfriend's suitcase.

A convicted rapist in a Polish prison was awarded compensation for being given meals which included meat after claimed he had converted to Buddhism and required a strict vegetarian diet.

An American citizen being held by North Korea for illegally entering the country will be subjected to severe punishment if the US will continue its campaign in the UN to censure it for the sinking of a south Korean warship in March this year.

Sir Ian McKellen, knight of both the stage and the silver screen, venerated deliverer of immortal lines from the Bard himself, is to take a role in a low-budget zombie movie.

Alger - One day before the expiration of the ultimatum, the terrorist group ‘Al Qaeda in the Maghreb released an audio message by Sergio Cicala, the Sicilian abducted with his wife last December, in the desert of Mauritania, on the border with Mali.

A convict who escaped from prison in late September 2009 is gathering a large following on Facebook by bragging about his lifestyle and ridiculing police online.