Solitary confinement

A local Istanbul court has acquitted some 400 suspects, who were inmates involved in a hunger strike and subsequent protest 16 years ago, which ended in dozens of casualties. 

Some 399 inmates were tired with charges of "rioting, possession of explosives and manslaughter," by the court, which concluded the case on its 98th ruling on Jan. 22. 

Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning has been found guilty of violating prison rules and will receive three weeks of recreational restrictions at the Kansas military prison where she's serving a 35-year sentence.

Seen from outside, it is great to be a child in Turkey.

But only when seen from outside.

This country likes its children.

Here children are the center of life.

This is the only country where a special holiday has been declared just for children.

It?s a place where advice such as ?Have children, have three children, have five children? never ends.

Authorities on Monday conditionally released a 70-year-old man charged with making a false statement to police according to which the 25-year-old mother of murdered toddler Ani Borisova had given her child to a friend to look after.

The mother of a 4-year-old girl allegedly killed by her biological father was remanded in custody on Thursday after telling an investigating magistrate that she had no involvement in the murder of her daughter, whom she had reported missing last month.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has devoted a publication to the appalling living conditions and the complaints of repeated beatings at the Boytchinovtsi Correctional Home for juvenile prisoners.

The article, which is accompanied by a video, has reached German and Romanian media outlets.