Myanmar’s State Administration Council on Tuesday granted pardons to over 7,000 prisoners and reduced sentences for former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and former president U Win Myint. This is according to the council’s orders on Tuesday. Six years…
Myanmar military pardons more than 3,000 prisoners for New Year
Myanmar’s military has announced plans to release 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country’s traditional New Year. The statement by the military on Monday did not specify whether those imprisoned for opposing its power grab in February 2021…
Obi celebrates Christmas with prisoners, visits motherless babies
Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday celebrated the Christmas with prisoners at Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. Obi, who was visiting the inmates for the third time this year,…
75,589 prisoners currently in Nigeria, 51,139 awaiting trial— Group
Nigeria currently has 75, 589 prisoners out of which 24, 450 are convicted while 51, 139 of them are awaiting trial, a group, the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI), has said. According to NULAI, more than 50 per cent…