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Palestinian women shouts slogans as holds poster their son during a protest in front the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Gaza City, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, February 6, 2012. Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN

Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike
Huffington Post | RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel launched a hunger strike on Tuesday, officials said, protesting their conditions and demanding an end to detentions with... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)

1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails begin hunger strike
GlobalResearch | Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food for one day, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) said on Tuesday.... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)

A former opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov sits in a cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, April. 27, 2011.

Belarus opposition leader released from prison
The Guardian | YURAS KARMANAU | Associated Press= MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A former Belarusian opposition presidential candidate jailed since the election 16 months ago has been freed, his wife said Saturday. She s... (photo: AP / Sergei Grits)

Inauguration of the new general head office of the direction of the taxes of Togo. For the festival of the fiftieth birthday of the independence of Togo and much other African countries. Inauguration du nouveau sige social de la direction gnral des impts du Togo. Pour la fte du cinquantime anniversaire de la indpendance du Togo et de beaucoup autres pays africains . Ministre de lAdministration territoriale, de la Dcentralisation et des Collectivits locales, Porte parole du Gouvernement :

800 Nationals in Togolese Prisons
All Africa [Vanguard] Abuja - Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nnena Ukeje, has disclosed that 800 Nigerians were serving various jail terms in Togo. | ... (photo: WN / Eteh)

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In this image provided by the Libyan Youth Movement that was taken Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, revolutionary fighters flank Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in Zintan, Libya, following his capture near the Niger border.

Saif al-Islam 'attacked' in Libya prison
Al Jazeera | Defence lawyers at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have called on Libya to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, s... (photo: AP / Libyan Youth Movement)

Accompanied by medical personnel, police sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso, left, and army sergeant Luis Alfredo Moreno, third from left, gesture upon their arrival to an airport after being released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in Villavicencio Colombia, Monday, April 2, 2012. Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police captives, all of whom had been held in jungle prisons for at least 12 years.

Farc Rebels Free Colombian 'Prisoners Of War'
Orange News | Colombia's Farc rebels have freed what it says were its last 10 soldier and police hostages as the weakened group seeks peace talks with the government. | The captives ... (photo: AP / Fernando Vergara)

Polands Prime Minister Donald Tusk, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak announce a compromise on how to overhaul the pension system, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, March 29, 2012.

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence
Atlanta Journal | WARSAW, Poland — For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the co... (photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski)

Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to journalists during the press conference in her residence in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, March 30, 2012.

Aung San Suu Kyi: prisoner-turned-politician
France24 | AFP - Newly transformed from imprisoned icon of Myanmar's struggle against repression to a key political actor, Aung San Suu Kyi is now on course to take a seat in parl... (photo: AP)

Palestinians fix a poster of Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike jailed in Israel, at a protest tent set up in front of her home in the northern West Bank village of Burqin, Monday, March. 26, 2012.

Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike
Al Jazeera | Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman on hunger strike for 43 days in protest against her detention without charges by Israel, has ended her fast under a deal that will see... (photo: AP / Mohammed Ballas)

Polish PM promises truth on CIA rendition prisoners
BBC News Poland's prime minister has promised to get to the truth behind claims that his country was involved in secret CIA interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects. | Donald Tusk... (photo: EC / EC)

CIA Director David Petraeus listens at right as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to assess current and future national security threats.

Newspaper says Poland's ex-intelligence chief charged in alleged torture at secret CIA prison
Daily Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish newspaper is reporting what it calls the first charges over an alleged secret CIA prison in Poland.The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper says... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)