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The organization said of Cipinang and other prisons: According to a survey conducted by a local non-governmental organization, over 81 percent of prisoners arrested between January 2003 and April 2005 in Salemba detention centre, Cipinang prison, and Pondok Bambu prison, all in Jakarta, were tortured or ill-treated. About 64 percent were ...
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Eddy Tansil, born Tan Tjoe Hong (Chinese: 陳珠芳; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tan Chu Hong, born 2 February 1953) is an Indonesian businessman of Chinese descent who bribed his way out of Cipinang Prison, Jakarta, on 4 May 1996 while serving a 17-year sentence for embezzling $420 million in loans from Bank Pembangunan Indonesia, which subsequently went bust and was amalgamated into Bank Mandiri.
Sentenced to life imprisonment, he served 14 years in Cipinang prison, Jakarta. [1] His case, which has been compared to imprisoned Australian tourist Schapelle Corby, [2] received media coverage by both the French and Indonesian press, and was featured on prime time news shows Sept à huit [3] and Tout le monde en parle in France. [4]
It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems. Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary ( Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar , the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez ...
Sword finally met Xanana Gusmão face to face in December 1994 while he was serving a 20-year sentence in Jakarta's Cipinang prison for leading the East Timorese resistance group FRETILIN. [4] [6] [9] Their first contact came when she taught him English by correspondence from 1992. Ultimately she bluffed her way into the prison at Christmas ...
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He was taken to Jakarta's maximum security prison, Cipinang. Although not released until late 1999, Gusmão successfully led the resistance from within prison with the help of Kirsty Sword. Prior to his release, the United Kingdom offered Gusmão political asylum to ensure his safety.