1.   The central government is already moving in that direction, mainly because of the increasing number of foreign convicts serving time in Japan.

2.   The same sort of process is conducted for checking letters sent and received by foreign convicts.

3.   Inmates on Friday lynched and then burned a foreign convict as authorities failed to regain control of Korydallos prison for a third day.

4.   Meanwhile, Iraq announced it was freeing two Kuwaiti prisoners under a general amnesty for foreign Arab convicts in Iraqi jails.

5.   German authorities confirmed Monday that Ghandanfar was released in November and expelled to Syria but said the move was part of normal procedure for foreign convicts.

6.   There was also the problem, he said, of deciding how to treat other foreign convicts from other countries.

7.   They were executed at the Kaohsiung detention house -- the first foreign convicts to be put to death there.