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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...