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India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who has served over 30 years of a life term in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case.

In a move to help convicts start a new life after prison, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin is planning to launch a campaign to boost their professional and language skills so they can find work overseas.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Saturday granted an amnesty to 762 convicts to mark a key Buddhist anniversary, but resisted calls to release a firebrand Buddhist monk.

THE CRIMINAL Court yesterday convicted all 11 defendants for detaining and gang-raping a girl in their hometown in Phang Nga province for several months in 2016.

The Corrections Department is reviewing inmates in the prison system nationwide who have been convicted of illegally making or modifying guns to enrol them in training with the Royal Thai Army Ordnance Department to aid the Ministry of Defence in manufacturing weapons.

THE 2016 Royal Pardon Decree seems to reflect social sentiments with stricter rules being applied for eligibility. Many Thais are demanding death sentence for rapists while some find it unacceptable that convicts sentenced to death for serious crimes walk

The Justice Ministry is formulating a scheme to ensure that the quality of life of newly released convicts will be improved.