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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.
Irán: recluso sometido a 60 azotes y en riesgo de amputación tras intento de suicidio
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Bielorrusia: las autoridades atacan a menores de edad para reprimir la disidencia
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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny
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Ecuador: violentos motines dejan más de 75 muertos en tres cárceles
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Équateur : des mutineries dans trois prisons font 79 morts
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Malaysia: stop sending MCO offenders to prison, consider other alternative measures
With Malaysia already facing an impending prison overcrowding issue where close to 70,000 are currently serving jail terms for various offences across the country, lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo urged the government to stop sending movement control order (MCO) offenders to prison as it will only worsen th…
Zimbabwe: prison inmates urged to embrace Covid-19 vaccine
PRISON inmates have been encouraged to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine whose rollout programme that has been approved by the government. Zimbabwe this week received 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China whose roll out begins today. The Vaccination programme has an overall target o…
République démocratique du Congo : comment lutter contre la malnutrition et les maladies dans les prisons ?
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Ireland: €3.7m spent on medicine for prison inmates over the last two years
More than €3.7m has been spent by the Irish Prison Service on medications for inmates over the past two years. The bill at a single prison can be in excess of €50,000 a month, according to the data, with costs highest at the Midlands Prison in Co Laois. The Irish Prison Service said many of those s…
Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist
In recent weeks, the Russian authorities arrested thousands of demonstrators at protests across the country, sentencing hundreds to several days or weeks in jail. For many of these people, behind bars for the first time in their lives, state custody was a uniquely upsetting experience — particularl…
Algérie : des ONG se mobilisent contre la torture et les conditions de détention
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Arabia Saudí: la conmutación de la pena de muerte impuesta a tres activistas chiíes detenidos cuando eran adolescentes, un avance positivo
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España: ”es injusto y desproporcionado que Pablo Hasél entre en la cárcel”
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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental
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