According to a Western official with knowledge of the investigation, Salehi telephoned Karzai from his jail cell.

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Yet none of the latter has led to prosecutions in the last decade (unless you count repeat offender Harold Nicholson, whose original 1997 sentence was extended eight years when he tried to resume spying by tasking his own son from his jail cell).

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Woolwich Crown Court was told Mrs Hunter-Mann-Purdy's husband Paul Alexander, 57, "ran the show" from his HMP Swaleside jail cell in Kent.

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His own account of his life, penned from a New York jail cell, recalls a flood in his neighbourhood in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, in 1984.

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He has said that he will refuse bail and conduct his campaign of resistance from a jail cell.

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James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site.

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She tells them how Anwar prays alone on the cement floor of his cell, and she reads messages written by him from jail calling for reformasi.

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