The conviction is the latest in what rights groups say is the government's attempt to silence voices critical of the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
Darko Desic escaped from Grafton jail in 1992 after being convicted of cannabis cultivation two years earlier but turned himself into police last year.
Bout, who was released in a prisoner swap for US basketball star Brittney Griner, has made controversial remarks in a video interview with Kremlin-controlled TV network RT.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert who was imprisoned by Iran on a spying conviction has warned the hardline Middle Eastern country has infiltrated this country.
After 650 days imprisoned in Myanmar, Australian academic Sean Turnell is in "remarkably good" spirits, speaking about his time in jail and even cracking jokes.
Specialist police negotiators have been called in and a major security operation launched after the inmate scaled the roof of the medium-security prison.
In a rare softening of hostile relations, Venezuela has freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the US releasing two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro's wife.
A 42-year-old convicted bombmaker serving life in prison for a deadly 2007 explosion outside a Las Vegas Strip resort has escaped from a Nevada state prison, officials said Tuesday.
A missing Alabama corrections official accused of helping a murder defendant escape from jail last week had a nonphysical "special relationship" with him that included allowing him privileges while incarcerated, a sheriff said.
The US Marshals Service is offering up to US $10,000 for information about an escaped inmate and a "missing and endangered" correctional officer who disappeared on Friday after the two left a jail in north Alabama.
A Mississippi death row inmate has told a judge under oath that he wants to continue appealing his case, months after saying he wanted to give up his appeals and request an execution date
Texas Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, led a group of politicians to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville where Melissa Lucio is a death row inmate
Convicted killer Scott Peterson's chance for a new trial in the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son 20 years ago hinges on whether a juror was biased because she was a domestic violence victim.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the US' largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.
If all goes as scheduled, 23-year-old Lindsey Kirk will be at a US prison this week to watch the execution of the stepfather who terrorised her family, sexually assaulted her when she was a child and killed her mother.
An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali and stuff the body into a suitcase has been deported to the United States.