The health of Ukraine's former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, is of growing concern. Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison last October for alleged abuse of office over a gas contract signed with Russia in 2009. The EU, the US and Russia have all said the sentence was politically motivated and unfair, however disadvantageous the gas contract might have been. Worse, there are now accusations that the Ukrainian authorities may be trying to kill her through neglect.
A suicide car bomb exploded at a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding more than 15, security sources have said, as Iraq faces a fresh spate of violence.
We count the political cost of the US "super committee" breakdown. Who in Washington will be the biggest losers from the failure to strike a deal? Meanwhile in Brazil, a "Truth Commission" has been set up to help heal the wounds of crimes committed during the military dictatorship. Finally, we look at how prisoners are chipping in to the rush to get ready for the football World Cup in Brazil.
It’s a victory for former prisoners in Kenya - they now have the right to take their former colonial imprisoners all the way to a top British court. Also, do Voodoo and Christianity mix? The Pope is in Benin this week to find out. Finally, you will discover some of the biggest football stars in Africa as they train here in France for next year's Africa Cup of Nations.
A delegation of Libya's new leaders head south, to the Sahara, to try to forge links with Tuareg tribes. Also, our reporters in Morocco follow the campaign to free a young rapper from prison. His supporters say he is being punished for his politics. Finally, has freedom of the press flourished in Tunisia? Ten months on from the first revolution of the Arab Spring, we shine the spotlight on Tunisian journalism.
Egypt and Israel on Thursday went ahead with a prisoner swap deal involving the release of US-Israeli national Ilan Grapel, held in Egypt since June on espionage charges, in exchange for 25 detained Egyptians.
A CIA contractor once jailed in Pakistan for killing two people was arrested again in the US state of Colorado on Saturday after allegedly fighting with another man over a parking spot. Raymond Davis, 36, was freed from a Pakistani prison in January.
The headlines get worse every day for Nicolas Sarkozy - this morning a poll says 68% of French voters believe he cannot win the next election. The French press also looks at the case of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, the psychology of power, and whether Zinedine Zidane could be the next coach of Les Bleus.
Representatives of Libya's National Transitional Council said on Sunday that they had unearthed a mass grave of at least 1,200 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi's regime following the 1996 Abu Salim prison uprising in Tripoli.
We bring you an exclusive report on the victims of fighting between Sudan's military and rebels in South Kordofan state. Also, Rwanda’s government has launched a male sterilisation programme to fight the country’s surging population. Finally, Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres gives an insight into Freetown's main prison in Sierra Leone.
