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Pakistan: 18 years in a death cell despite his innocence
testimonial
20 November 2019. "Being on death row made me truly understand the concept of death. During my incarceration I witnessed about 50 executions". Safeer spent 18 years in prison. The High Court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. He has now been released on bail to await his Supreme Court appeal. He tells his story.
Cameroon: going crazy
testimonial
14 November 2019 A team of lawyers met 37 inmates who were sentenced to death and are being held in various Cameroonian prisons. Excerpts.
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Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
Of Lengths and Measures
When nights start to fall, prisons still glow on the outskirts of towns. Stephen Tourlentes unveils the architectural stigma of incarceration.
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Four Tunisian prisons host screenings at a film festival. Augustin Le Gall, a photojournalist, brings back a sample of the wind of freedom that blew into Borj Erroumi prison.
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Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
Prisons
Being deprived of freedom causes extreme distress. The images by Sebastien van Malleghem denounce the archaic and opaque walls which enclose these men and women and their broken lives.
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Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
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Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
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