1. A Ministry of Justice committee met with the rioting prisoners and promised to look into their complaints. 2. A prisoner speaking by telephone to a local radio station said the rioting prisoners are not guerrillas. 3. Guards fired tear gas and bullets to free five guards held hostage by rioting prisoners who were protesting overcrowded conditions, according to police officials. 4. He was killed late last month by rioting prisoners at a compound in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, the agency said. 5. Prison guards fired tear gas and bullets on Thursday to free five guards held hostage by rioting prisoners who were protesting overcrowded conditions, police officials said. 6. Rioting prisoners on Thursday stabbed to death another inmate while two others managed to escape briefly into the Dominican countryside. 7. Rioting prisoners remained at large Tuesday, after escaping from a federal prison in an armored car, authorities in Guanajuato state said. 8. Rioting prisoners shot and killed him as the uprising began. 9. Special police were called in Sunday to quell rioting prisoners who smashed windows and tried to set cells on fire Sunday in a jail on these Portuguese Atlantic islands. 10. The rioting prisoners beat up two other inmates and smashed up their cells, using broken chains and glass shards from windows to fight security staff. |