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Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Venezuela: tortura en el reñidero de Maduro sobre detenidos desnudos en el suelo
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Syria: boys, men held in inhumane conditions
A Kurdish-led armed group backed by the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is detaining thousands of Syrian and foreign men and boys in severely overcrowded informal detention centers in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mexico: la prison la plus incontrôlable du pays fermée pour devenir un musée
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Chad: l'armée reprend le contrôle de la prison d’Abéché après une mutinerie
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Belgium: la prison de Saint-Gilles sous haute tension
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Iran: Sepideh Qoliyan said she was tortured, now she’s serving an 18-year prison sentence
Sepideh Qoliyan is currently serving an 18.6-year prison sentence in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women after being arrested at workers’ rights protests in the city of Shush, Khuzestan Province, and publicly stating that she and fellow detainees had been tortured in the custody of the Intelligence Mi…
Gambia: des conditions de détention qui tardent à changer
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USA: study shows link between restrictive housing and increased risk of mortality after release from prison
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that being held in restrictive housing (i.e., solitary confinement) is associated with an increased risk of death after a person is released from prison.
Russia: new report offers government think-tank perspective on reforming the prison system
Russia has too many prisoners — more than 543,000, the largest imprisoned population per capita in Europe. Twenty-eight percent of Russian prisoners are behind bars for drug-related crimes, more than those imprisoned for either robbery or murder. Most of those individuals are drug users, not drug d…Czech Republic: terapias para reducir la reincidencia entre la población expresidiaria
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USA: Sheriffs release sick people from jail to avoid paying hospital bills
Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s deputies took him to the hospital. But before they loaded the inmate into the back of a car, deputies propped up his slumping body and handed him a pen so he could sign a release from the Washington County J…Saudi Arabia: un journaliste détenu 56 jours dans une prison saoudienne: "je me suis souvenu de Khashoggi et de la scie"
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