Prisoner

The US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce has said Washington will view as a ?profoundly unfriendly act? legislation that paves the way for November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros to be released from prison early.

The government on Thursday submitted to Parliament an amendment to be tagged onto the bill foreseeing the scrapping of maximum-security prisons that would allow inmates? partners or relatives who are deemed to be suspects to be held under house arrest rather than in custody.

In a report prepared by two opposition deputies, shocking incidents were revealed in the Juvenile Ward of the Adana Ceyhan Prison, which included rape; while guards at the prison complained of prisoners throwing razor blades and pouring boiling water on them.

A witness told the trial of ex-fighter Nikola Maric, accused of the detention, persecution and killing of Bosniaks in the Prozor area, that he saw the defendant shoot a fellow prisoner.

The deputy warden of Malandrino Prison in central Greece was murdered on Tuesday by an inmate who used a makeshift knife to slice his victim’s throat.

Authorities said the 46-year-old prison guard, a father of two, died as he was being taken to the hospital. His windpipe had been severed in the attack, which was carried out by an Albanian inmate.