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Équateur : des mutineries dans trois prisons font 79 morts

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South America Protest Violence Ecuador

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République démocratique du Congo : comment lutter contre la malnutrition et les maladies dans les prisons ?

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Africa Health Congo - Kinshasa

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New Zealand: treatment at Auckland women's prison 'degrading' and 'inhumane' - judge

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Women Oceania Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Violence New Zealand
Corrections broke its own rules and regulations multiple times in its treatment of Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps, who were gassed in their cells and forced to perform a humiliating ritual to be fed, Manukau District Court Judge David McNaughton says. His ruling also confirms the women had to remov…

Source — Rnz

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India: after 70 years, Rajasthan amends prison manual that sanctioned caste-based labour

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Culture Asia Access to legal rights Justice Activities Religion India
For over 70- years, the Rajasthan state had followed an unconstitutional and violative prison manual that allowed assignment of labour on the basis of a prisoner’s caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until The Wire’s report exposed the conditions in prisons of Ra…

Source — The Wire Impact

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Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist

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Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia
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…

Source — Meduza

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Algérie : des ONG se mobilisent contre la torture et les conditions de détention

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Africa Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence Algeria

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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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Minors Middle East Justice Death penalty Saudi Arabia

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España: ”es injusto y desproporcionado que Pablo Hasél entre en la cárcel”

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Spain

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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Death penalty Pakistan

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Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Torture Violence Russia

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Arabia Saudí: la liberación de la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres Loujain al Hathloul llega con mucho retraso

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Torture Violence Saudi Arabia

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Chile: interno de cárcel de La Serena se suicida tras acosos de gendarmes por su orientación sexual

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South America LGBTI Access to legal rights Torture Violence Chile

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Chile: siguen los abusos en gendarmería, ahora torturan a interna trans en cárcel de Arica

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South America LGBTI Access to legal rights Torture Violence Chile

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