Timmerman, 29, said he had gone to Syria on a Christian pilgrimage and was not ill-treated while in Palestine Branch, a notorious detention facility operated by Syrian intelligence.
Sharmahd was one of several Iranian dissidents abroad in recent years either tricked or kidnapped back to Iran as Tehran began lashing out after the collapse of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers including Germany.
The newly freed Americans included US journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsa Kurmasheva, ex-Marine Paul Whelan and Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. This is the largest prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War that involved 24 prisoners, including eight from the Wets to Russia.
Delhi crime: DCP, Northeast, said that a police control room call regarding the incident was received at around 7.30 pm following which a police team reached the spot.
According to the police, a prisoner died and one police personnel got injured after two inmates attacked the security person.
Security analysts said the chain of events, which took place three weeks after the slaying of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was a “systematic and planned” attack that had shown the state was ineffective in preventing violence.
Kerala: A prisoner in a Kerala jail allegedly got agitated and manhandled jail officials, as he was not satisfied with the quantity of mutton curry, served to him in jail.
Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban drug lord, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was released in exchange with American Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran, who was held in Afghanistan.
The prisoner, who is facing life sentence in a murder case, has alleged that a word 'aatwadi' or terrorist is inscribed on his back.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called it a “grave incident” that required maximum effort by Israel’s various security branches.
Seven undertrial prisoners (UTPs) escaped from a jail in Arunachal Pradesh by throwing chilli and pepper powder and salt at the guards manning the jail.
DG Jail Anand Kumar sought the order of suspension of the jail warder Ashok Yadav concerned with immediate effect, and also asked clarification from supervisory officer
Five prisoners, including one facing trial for rape, escaped from a jail in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district on Thursday.
A prisoner of Gwalior Central Jail escaped from the hospital by dodging guard.
A prisoner escaped from a district hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district on June 7.
A 26-year-old undertrial allegedly attacked a few members of the police escort party after they did not allow him to have home-cooked food brought by his family members at a court in Mumbai, an official said on Saturday.
Goli Rajesh, a prisoner convicted in a theft case was recently shifted to the prison from Warangal and he attacked Head Warden Satyanarayana.
Earlier this year, Salaria installed over 60 hand pumps in a poverty-stricken district of Pakistan's Sindh province.
Several hundred prisoners, who have not been convicted for murder, rape and corruption, will be released from jails across India on October 2 to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi officials said on Sunday.
The prisoner had managed to get hold of the chilli powder but did not attempt anything on the way to the hospital as there were a number of security personnel.
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