1.   Ironically, another high-profile figure convicted of embezzlement the same month as Roldan was also granted prison leave this week.

2.   Since then he has either escaped or failed to return from prison leave eight times, becoming something of a popular hero in the process.

3.   Sankoh has been on prison leave to attend the Lome talks, living in a luxury high-rise hotel in Lome.

4.   The suspect, Steen Victor Christensen, escaped while on an unescorted prison leave in September.

5.   He added that the Justice Ministry was preparing a bill of indictment against the magistrates responsible for granting prison leave.

6.   In recent years, Palestinians sentenced for terrorist activities have regularly taken advantage of prison leave to disappear.

7.   A system of remissions, prison leave and early release should be seriously considered and a decision taken in six months, they said.

8.   But several Italian politicians called for the rule on prison leave to be revised, so that those convicted of terrorism could not take advantage of it.

9.   Italian officials have said that disciplinary action would be taken against the parole judge who granted the terrorist prison leave, he said.

10.   The case of Majed al-Molki, who failed to return from prison leave, has caused massive outrage in the United States and considerable embarrassment to Italy.