prisoner
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Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”
However, some U.S. officials and lawmakers are worried about the stability of facilities across northeast Syria, where the SDF is guarding thousands of prisoners belonging to the so-called Islamic State group.
Her barrister said Pinckard's "giving of cakes and sweets" was "naively and stupidly trying to make the lives of prisoners somewhat better".
From BBC
His son Ramon Guanipa said he receives dozens of messages and calls every day following the government's announcement of impending prisoner releases.
From Barron's
A French prosecutor Friday sought a one-year jail term for an Iranian woman accused of promoting "terrorism" online in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens.
From Barron's
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