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    World Most Women In Kabul Prison Convicted Of Moral Crimes

    Most women at Kabul prison accused of 'moral' crimes http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/most-women-at-kabul-prison-accused-of-moral-crimes-351883?fb Kabul: The 21-year-old Afghan woman said she fled her abusive husband only to be raped at gunpoint by a stranger who was supposed to help her...
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    Canada Non-Christian Prison Chaplains Chopped By Ottawa

    Non-Christian prison chaplains chopped by Ottawa CBC News Posted: Oct 4, 2012 6:21 PM PT The federal government is cancelling the contracts of non-Christian chaplains at federal prisons, CBC News has learned. Inmates of other faiths, such as Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jews...
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    Canada Vancouver Truck Driver Sentenced To Life In Indian Prison For Killing His Wife

    Vancouver truck driver sentenced to life in Indian prison for killing his wife By Sam Cooper, The ProvinceJune 10, 2012 Manjit Badyal (L) was sentenced to life imprisonment in India for the contract killing of his wife, Kuldeep Badyal (R) in 2009, when she was shot dead on her...
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    USA Bearded Sikh Finally Allowed To Work In Calif. Prison

    by Divanee Trilochan Singh Oberoi, a bearded Sikh American, will finally begin working at Folsom State Prison in California Nov. 1, after a contentious six-year battle to gain employment there. “I feel like a soldier who has finished a long battle,” a jubilant Oberoi told India-West. “I do...
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    UK Prison Guard Told He Can't Wear His Sikh Dagger In Jail

    y Claire Duffin And Catherine Oakes Cduffin A SIKH prison officer sacked for wearing a religious dagger in jail has lost a legal challenge against his dismissal. Jagdip Singh Dhinsa, 26, of Derby, had worked at Dovegate Prison for three weeks when he was sacked for carrying the knife, known as...
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    United Sikhs Uk Tribunal: Kirpan Ban Justified Against Sikh Prison Officer

    Birmingham, UK - An employment tribunal ruled today (18th May 2011) that a Sikh Prison officer was not discriminated against when he was asked to remove his Kirpan, his article of faith, even though a proposal to allow the wearing of the Kirpan had already been agreed in principle...
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    Sikh Coalition Sikh Coalition Files Second Lawsuit Against California Prison System

    April 2, 2011 (Washington, DC) - The Sikh Coalition has filed a lawsuit [ http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/COMPLAINT_CV11-01676_SVW_FMOx.pdf ] against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on behalf of Mr. Sukhjinder Singh Basra, a Sikh detainee, who suffered...
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    USA US Sues On Behalf Of Sikh Prison Inmate (US DOJ V State Of California)

    U.S. sues on behalf of Sikh prison inmate Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/03/16/US-sues-on-behalf-of-Sikh-prison-inmate/UPI-50571300306183/#ixzz1GoGiZ0ba SACRAMENTO, March 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department sued the state of California on behalf of a Sikh prison...
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    USA Sikh Inmate Sues Calif Prison Over Grooming Policy

    Sikh inmate sues Calif prison over grooming policy The Associated Press Posted: 02/25/2011 06:44:42 PM PST Updated: 02/25/2011 06:44:43 PM PST LOS ANGELES—A Sikh inmate in a San Luis Obispo prison is suing the state Department of Corrections, alleging that he was unfairly disciplined for...
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    Canada Canadian Flight Attendant Handed 8-Year Prison Term For Drug-Smuggling

    Canadian Flight Attendant Handed 8-Year Prison Term For Drug-Smuggling By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News - December 20, 2010 2:11 PM Air Canada flight attendant Mandeep Shahi of Mississauga, Ont. Photograph by: Metropolitan Police Service, London, Photo Handout An Air Canada flight attendant...
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    India Indian Temple Attackers Get Tough Prison Sentences In Vienna

    Vienna - Six radical Sikh men received heavy prison sentences Tuesday in Vienna for their involvement in the killing of a senior Indian sect leader last year in Austria's capital, media reported. The May 2009 attack at the temple of the Dera Sach Khand sect had triggered widespread violence...
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    India India Ranks Fifth In Prison Population In The World

    New Delhi, Nov 26 India, the second most populous nation occupies the fifth place in the world in terms of prisoners' population, even as global superpower the United States of America holds the number 1 spot. In a survey conducted by King's College, London in 218 countries and territories, a...
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    The Prison Of One-Word Labels

    The gambler never wins in the end simply because over the long haul the odds are set to favor the house. I am not a gambler but I got roped into a fixed game with odds set against me when I entered a discussion on the Internet with my eyes wide open. In fact, they must have been wide shut. The...
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    Sikh News Two More Tunnels Surface In Chandigarh's Burail Prison (Yahoo! India News)

    Two more tunnels surface in Chandigarh's Burail prison (Yahoo! India News) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11hbrhu4s/*http%3A//in.news.yahoo.com/060401/43/63a5w.html Array Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:25:42 GMT Chandigarh, April 1 (IANS) Police Saturday evening found that a group...
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    Islam Radical Islamic Groups In Pakistan Demand U.S. Shut Guantanamo Prison (AP Via Yahoo! Asia News)

    A coalition of radical Pakistani Islamic groups on Sunday demanded that the United States close its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and apologize for the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book by U.S. soldiers at the detention facility...
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    Al Qaeda Says 7 Suicide Bombers Struck Iraqi Prison (Reuters)

    Reuters - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said on Sunday seven suicide bombers spearheaded its brazen overnight raid on Abu Ghraib prison that wounded 44 U.S. soldiers, according to an Internet statement...
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