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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim meeting with the Sungai Buloh Prison Department staff at the Prison's Department Hari Raya open house earlier today - BERNAMA

Relatives wait for the release of prisoners outside the Insein prison in Yangon on May 3, 2023. - Myanmar's junta announced on may 3, 2023 it had pardoned 2,153 prisoners jailed under a law that criminalises encouraging dissent against the military. (Photo by AFP)

In this file photo taken on March 17, 2020, Syrian refugees stand ion the balcony of a building under construction which they have been using as shelter in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon. - Syrians poured into Lebanon after civil war broke out in 2011 with Damascus's brutal suppression of peaceful protests. With the regime now back in control of most of the country, calls have intensified in crisis-hit Lebanon for Syrians to go home. - Pic: AFP

Singapore on Wednesday hanged a prisoner convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogramme of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international calls for the city-state to abolish capital punishment.

Pengkalan Chepa Prison director Senior Assistant Prison Commissioner Wan Sani Ab Latiff (left) and the prison officers showing the Raya biscuits produced by the Pengkalan Chepa Prison inmates.

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Mariam (right) hugging her sister when she was informed that she was among the inmates given an early release from their sentence through the Licensed Prisoner Release Programme at the Kota Kinabalu Central Prison mini hall.

After spending 40 years in jail, Jamil Arshad will forever cherish the date March 22 - when he received a royal pardon from the Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar - BERNAMA

Supporters of Palestine demonstrate in Times Square against recent events between Israel and Palestinians that have resulted in deaths in both communities - AFP