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Greek officials have arrested a prison warden and suspended eight guards two days after the dramatic helicopter escape of two inmates. The justice minister is also cracking down on mobile phone use by prisoners, saying Sunday’s escape could have happened only with inside help.
The director of a maximum-security prison and two of his colleagues resigned Monday after two inmates escaped by helicopter. The Greek minister of justice, Nicholas Dendias, said he had asked for and received the resignations of the director, security secretary and head of inspection and control at Korydallos Prison, in a suburb of Athens. “The government will not tolerate the current situation,” he said in a written statement
The wife of an imprisoned AIDS activist in China told CNN that Chinese police Saturday confined her to her home during the visit of U.S.
More than 60 passengers were missing after a riverboat collided with a trawler in southern Bangladesh Thursday, police said. In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation’s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains “voluntarily socially segregated.” “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared
The Right screams that it’s a witch-hunt, the Left complains it’s a cop-out, and President Obama wishes it would just go away. But Senator Patrick Leahy isn’t about to drop his proposal for a Truth Commission to investigate wrongdoing in the Bush Administration.
The Sudanese government and a rebel faction in the country’s troubled Darfur region have agreed to embark on talks that many hope will eventually end a six-year conflict that has killed about 300,000 people, Qatari media reported Tuesday. The government and representatives of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) will sign an initial agreement Tuesday on confidence-building measures, Qatar’s official news agency, SUNA, quoted the country’s prime minister as saying