April 2021
Europe
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Malta
The Dean questioned the mechanisms that judges can utilise when handing down sentences to those convicted. “We need to ask: ‘Why are there more people in jail?’ Is it because we are being more efficient in the way we are investigating, or are there other difficulties, such as judges not having othe…
Source — Independent
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Bahrain
Activists said prisoners protesting conditions in a Bahraini jail were beaten in a security operation last weekend that authorities had described as a response to disobedience following repeated warnings.
Tensions had been rising in the country’s main Jau prison since an outbreak of COVID-19 last m…
Source — US News
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Ghana
To enable the centre operate effectively some members of Parliament, especially from the Volta Region, have presented medical equipment worth GH¢65,780 to the prison.
The medical equipment, including beds, thermometers, stretchers, stethoscopes, sterilisers and computers were purchased from donatio…
Source — Ghanaweb
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Italy
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Irán impone otro año de cárcel a Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, la iranobritánica que liberó el pasado marzo
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Iran
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Egypt
Responding to the news that the Egyptian authorities executed nine people today, including an 82-year-old man, after a grossly unfair trial, in relation to the killing of 13 police officers during an attack on Kerdasa police station in August 2013, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Afri…
Source — Amnistía internacional
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Russia
Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of all those who have been detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and for the immediate release of Aleksei Navalny who is being arbitrarily detained and denied access to independent healthcare.
“On Wednesday,…
Source — Amnistía internacional
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Saudi Arabia
Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), formerly one of Saudi Arabia’s few independent human rights organizations, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his peaceful activism. His wife told Amnesty International that his f…
Source — Amnesty international
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Ireland
The Mountjoy and Maynooth University (MJMU) project aims to become a template across the prison service to “disrupt the inevitability” of a life in and out of the prison system for many offenders.
Dr Rose Ryan, director of the access programme in MU, said while the university was already involved i…
Source — Irish Times
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Africa
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Egypt
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said in a report, that the massive expansion of prison construction in Egypt – as the number of prisons established since the January 2011 Revolution has reached 35 – hasn’t contributed to improving the prisoners’ conditions. This is because t…
Source — IFEX
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United Kingdom
“Being encased within steel and mortar shouldn’t alter the fundamental essence of a human being. Amid the brutality and apathy of the prison system, some find the ability to be creative” (Steeldoorstudios exposes the challenges of the creative process in prison.)
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Africa
Violence
Nigeria
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra has dissociated itself from the recent attack at the Nigerian Correctional Service in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The IPOB also reiterated that its members and the Eastern Security Network have never involved in assaulting Nigeria’s security operatives.
While rea…
Source — Sahara reporters
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Nigeria
No fewer than 2,000 inmates at the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Owerri, Imo State were set free by unknown gunmen on Monday morning
The gunmen also attacked the nearby office of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the state police command, also freeing…
Source — Sahara reporters
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Thailand
Parit Chiwarak, 22, was charged in February with sedition and defaming the monarchy for his role in leading demonstrations. Parit’s lawyer requested bail for him and three others charged with the same offences, but the court denied it.
Corrections officials at Pathumthani Detention Center north of…
Source — Washington post
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Brazil
Despite many differences at the legal, social and economic levels, Brazil and the United States have commonalities in their use of female incarceration. The Instituto Terra, Trabalho e Cidadania (Land, Labour and Citizenship Institute, ITTC) undertook a comparative investigation to identify recurre…
Source — The Instituto Terra, Trabalho e Cidadania (ITTC)
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