Penology

Egyptian prison authorities executed on Jan. 2 five inmates who had been sentenced to death, four of them over a bombing that killed military cadets, security officials said.

The country's highest administrative court on Thursday rejected a claim by the family of a man who committed suicide while incarcerated at Ioaninna Prison in northwestern Greece in 2001.

The family was seeking 1.2 million euros from the Greek state in moral damages after their relative, convicted of drug-related offenses, hanged himself in his cell.

A court in China sentenced 10 people to death, mostly for drug-related crimes, in front of thousands of people in a stadium before being sent for execution, the British Guardian newspaper writes.

They were executed immediately after the verdicts were handed down in Luffen Prefecture in southern Guangdong province (Canton), 160 km from Hong Kong, state media reported.

German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, who has been detained at a prison in Istanbul for nine months, is no longer in solitary confinement.

An open-air meeting will be held today by the prison staff in Sliven. They join in protesting their colleagues from other places of imprisonment in the country, reports sega.

The government on Tuesday rejected an amendment brought to Parliament by New Democracy aimed at scrapping a law passed in 2015 which allows certain prisoners convicted of serious felonies to be granted furloughs.

Some 197 children were in prison on terror charges and a total of 2,767 children between the ages of 12 and 18 were in prison in Turkey as of Aug. 1, the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses has stated.

A 29-year-old man accused of sending a letter bomb to former prime minister Lucas Papademos in May and similar devices to top European officials earlier this year was remanded in custody for the second time in a week on Friday after appearing before an investigating magistrate and denying any involvement in manufacturing or sending the bombs.

At least 13 prisoners were killed in a riot between two gangs and a rebellion that broke out yesterday in a prison in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, 24chasa said.

The countries that abolished the death penalty have reached 170. 87% of the death sentences are carried out in four countries. They are Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. These figures were released on Tuesday by the United Nations on the World Day against the Death Penalty - Oct. 10.