One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot rock group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, has been taken to hospital for tests, a spokeswoman for the Russian prisons service said on Friday.

A court in Mumbai has ruled that Bollywood star Salman Khan will be tried for culpable homicide over a 2002 hit-and-run case which could land him behind bars for 10 years, his lawyer said Friday.

One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot rock group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, has been taken to hospital for tests at her own wish, a spokeswoman for the Russian prisons service said.

Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people, has complained to the Norwegian government over prison conditions akin to "aggravated torture", his lawyer said Thursday.

A military judge overseeing September 11 pre-trial hearings revealed Thursday the government had censored discussion of secret CIA prisons from outside the courtroom, and angrily ordered such censorship not happen again.

One of Russia's World Cup host cities has yet to solve the problem of the future of two prisons that are currently next door to the stadium that will host the football matches in the 2018 tournament, officials admitted Wednesday.

A US judge sentenced two Iraqi men living in Kentucky to federal prison for their role in a plot to ship weapons to Iraqi insurgents and raise money for the Al-Qaeda terror network.

Lawyers for five alleged 9/11 plotters urged a military judge to give them two days to visit the super-secure prison and cells where their clients are being held.

A Texas judge on Tuesday granted a last-minute reprieve to death row inmate Kimberly McCarthy, who had been scheduled to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2010.

Kimberly McCarthy, set Tuesday to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2010, has sought a last-minute reprieve from the Texas governor.

Five accused 9/11 plotters boycotted their pre-trial hearing Tuesday in a Guantanamo courtroom, a day after authorities censored part of the proceedings.

US authorities censored part of a preliminary hearing Monday at a Guantanamo military tribunal that touched on CIA secret prisons where suspected 9/11 plotters say they were tortured.

Kimberly McCarthy is set to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2010 on Tuesday after being condemned to death in Texas for murdering an elderly woman during a robbery.

A US congresswoman on Monday urged France not to release a Lebanese militant jailed in connection with the murder of a US military attache in Paris, despite his being granted parole after nearly three decades behind bars.

Security forces regained full control over a prison in northwestern Venezuela on Sunday and evacuated inmates after a riot left 58 dead and twice as many wounded.

Security forces regained full control over a prison in northwestern Venezuela on Sunday and evacuated inmates after a riot left 61 dead and twice as many wounded.

Riot police squads worked Sunday to establish full control over a prison in northwestern Venezuela, where a riot has left at least 61 inmates dead and twice as many injured.

Relatives of inmates missing after a Venezuelan prison riot that left at least 61 dead desperately sought news of their loved ones as detainees were moved to other jails.

A suicide bomber who killed 42 people at a funeral in a Shiite mosque this week had escaped from prison in an Al-Qaeda jail break in September, a provincial politician claimed on Saturday.

At least 55 people were killed and 90 others wounded in clashes between prison gangs and security guards at a facility in northwest Venezuela, a hospital director said Saturday.