August 2018
Europe
Middle East
Torture
Turkey
More than 150,000 civil servants were purged after Turkey’s 2016 failed coup. Officers at NATO bases were ordered back and many were jailed.
Source — Euronews
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Debate
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Europe
France
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Source — France Info
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Death penalty
Violence
United States
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Source — Amnesty international
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Europe
Violence
France
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Source — Le Parisien
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Nepal: strong resemblance to the past
Analysis
Report
Despite the ratification of six key international human rights treaties by Nepal, AF lawyers have witnessed numerous cases of ill-treatments and tortures in police detention centers, where those behaviors have been proven to be more likely to happen.
To AF, the implementation of these legal instr…
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United States
Brutal treatment from corrections officers, deteriorating prison conditions, and incredibly long, punitive sentences had led to a condition of hopelessness in South Carolina’s prisons.A decision was made: It was time to launch a national prison strike to raise awareness around the brutality of mass…
Source — ACLU
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Europe
Discipline
Rehabilitation
Religion
France
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Source — France Info
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Central America and the Caribbean
Violence
El Salvador
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Source — La Opinión
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North America
Protest
United States
Incarcerated Americans are often forced to work for cents an hour. So they’re launching what could be their biggest protest ever.
Source — Vox
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Central America and the Caribbean
Social ties
Mexico
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Huffpost
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France : voile interdit lors d’une visite en prison, "l’arbitraire, premier problème des familles"
News
Europe
Social ties
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Parisien
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Asia
Europe
Torture
Russia
Ruslan Vakhapov says ‘desire for revenge in a legal way’ led him to expose brutality in prison system.
He recognised all the prison guards on trial last month for the brutal torture of an inmate in a Yaroslavl prison. They used to be his jailers too.
Source — The Guardian
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