Family members of inmates stand outside Topo Chico Prison as an ambulance leaves the compound in Monterrey, Mexico, February 11, 2016. Reuters/Daniel Becerril
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Nigeria passes law banning homosexuality
The Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act was signed by President Goodluck Jonathan Photo: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
President quietly signs new legislation outlawing homosexuality and imposing prison terms of up to 14 years for people prosecuted under the new act
Egypt jails women protesters for 11 years
Some of the 21 women caged in an Alexandria courtroom awaiting their sentences Photo: AMIRA MURTADA/AP
Egypt dismayed as 21 women are given 11-year prison sentences, far harsher than those of policemen accused of beating to death and assaulting protesters
Man, 18, sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for revenge rape of elderly lady he twice previously burglarized
Horrible: Curtez Graham, 18, raped a 65-year-old woman as revenge after he was sent to prison for twice burglarizing her home
Saeed Abedini, DC’s other Iran issue, comes to the fore
Saeed Abedini with his family before his arrest (photo credit: courtesy ACLJ)
With an interim nuclear deal on the horizon, one pastor’s fate is at the center of calls to keep relations with Tehran cool
The United States Has More People In Jail Than High School Teachers And Engineers
credit: Huffington Post
Fire breaks out in Saudi prison, riots and gunshots reported
Jesse Jackson Jr. officially an inmate at NC federal prison
Woman sentenced to 11 years for insulting Kuwait emir
A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a woman teacher to a total of 11 years in jail for insulting the emir, inciting regime change and insulting a religious sect via Twitter.
A Kuwaiti female has been sentenced to 11 years for insulting ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
By Reuters
Huda al-Ajmi, 37, is the first woman known to have been convicted for criticising the US-allied Gulf Arab state’s ruler, described as “immune and inviolable” in the constitution.
Kuwait has penalised several Twitter users in recent months for slurs against the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. The political trials have drawn rebuke abroad and anger at home.
Court sources said Ajmi was given two consecutive five-year terms for insulting the emir and one year for insulting an unspecified religious sect. “This is the highest sentence of its kind in these kinds of cases,” one source said.
Ajmi has not yet been taken into custody and can appeal the sentences, the sources said. It is rare for a woman to serve jail time for political crimes in Kuwait, which allows more freedom of speech than some other Gulf Arab states.
In February, Human Rights Watch said prosecutors had charged nearly 25 people with offending the emir, sentencing at least six to jail terms, since October.
The United States has called on Kuwait to respect freedom of expression.
Thirteen die in Mexico prison fight in San Luis Potosi
Worried relatives have gathered at the jail to wait for news of their loved ones
At least 13 people are dead after a battle broke out between prisoners at a jail in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.
A group of inmates used homemade knives and picks to attack rivals at the La Pila prison, the state attorney general’s office was quoted as saying.
Authorities took several hours to bring the fighting under control.
Deadly outbreaks of violence are common in Mexico’s overcrowded jails, which house inmates from rival drug gangs.
Dozens of people were injured – some seriously – in the fighting that broke out at La Pila, situated in the state capital, early on Saturday morning, officials said.
The authorities in the northern state of San Luis Potosi have begun to name the dead and warned concerned families waiting for news that the number of fatalities may rise.
Violence began when a group of prisoners took action after being harassed by other inmates, news agency AP quoted the state attorney general’s office as saying.
Rivalries between criminal gangs frequently spills over into Mexico’s antiquated and dangerous prisons, correspondents say. Studies say some prisons are effectively run by gangs.
Human rights groups say the penal system suffers from chronic overcrowding and is in urgent need of an overhaul.
Despite assertions that the prison system would be reformed after the last major incident, in which 44 inmates were killed, there have been no tangible improvements, neither during the final year of the previous administration nor in the first six months of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government, says the BBC’s Will Grant in Mexico City.
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