July 2025
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Middle East
Torture
Violence
Israel
Israeli prisons are a key element of the colonisation mechanism of the Palestinian people. A roundtable on this topic was held at the Assises pour la Palestine in April 2025, with the participation of Prison Insider. Read the highlights of this discussion.
Asia
Elderly prisoners
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
India
In the advisory, the MHA reiterated its commitment to the welfare of elderly citizens and emphasised the need for “special accessible accommodations in prisons” to meet the physical needs of old incarcerated people.
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Health
Mental health
Suicide
Lebanon
The suicide of a Syrian man in Lebanon’s Roumieh Central Prison has cast a new light on the dire conditions inside the country’s prisons, particularly medical neglect and the delay of trials.
Africa
Crises
Access to legal rights
Death penalty
Violence
Social ties
Congo - Kinshasa
The DRC has experienced a major political and economic crisis for decades, coupled with a civil war. What are the implications for detention? The League of Voluntary Sacrifices for Human Rights and the Environment (Ligue des Sacrifices Volontaires pour les Droits Humains et l’Environnement) answers…
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Ireland
There are 376 people in Cork prison today, a new overcrowding record and representing 127% capacity, making it the most overcrowded men’s prison in the country.
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Access to legal rights
Religion
China
Hong Kong has proposed tightening its prison rules to restrict inmate visits, including those made by religious leaders and lawyers, if the authorities deem it necessary for national security.
Asia
Discipline
Health
Torture
Violence
Myanmar (Burma)
Since his transfer to Obo Prison in Mandalay last month, prominent anti-coup protest leader Wai Moe Aung has suffered brutal mistreatment and been deprived of medical attention by prison authorities, according to the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM).
Europe
Mental health
Suicide
Overcrowding
Italy
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks set to send more people to jail with her law-and-order crackdown — but the country’s prisons are in no fit state to take more incarcerated people.
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Drugs
Death penalty
Iran
According to HRANA, the executed person was an Afghan national. His identity is currently being verified. Sources indicate that the incarcerated person had been arrested on drug-related charges and was later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.
Africa
Material conditions
Work
South Africa
Prison bakeries in South Africa are helping the correctional services department (DCS) cut costs, promote self-sufficiency and sustainability and help incarcerated people gain practical experience while they receive a daily gratuity ranging from R2 to R9.
Asia
Discipline
Health
Mental health
Torture
Azerbaijan
During the meeting with his lawyer, Hasanli said he had been kept in a solitary confinement cell since June 26 and had been on a hunger strike since then. Despite his deteriorating health due to the hunger strike, he has not received medical assistance or a doctor’s examination.