Sierra Leone
Africa
Death penalty
Sierra Leone
On 23 July 2021, the Parliament of Sierra Leone voted in favour of a Bill abolishing the death penalty. The Bill is required to receive the assent of President Julius Maada Bio before it becomes law.
In February, President Bio officially gave the directives for the death penalty to be abolished fro…
Source — Amnesty international
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Africa
Coronavirus
Health
Protest
Sierra Leone
A riot has broken out at the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, with smoke billowing from the facility after the confirmation of a coronavirus case there.
Inmates at Pademba Road Prison had earlier on Wednesday set some buildings on fire in a protest that police and security forces…
Source — Aljazeera
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Africa
Sierra Leone
A shaft of light penetrates the foul air through a fist-sized vent. It reveals naked, sweating bodies packed side-by-side like sardines, lying in darkness on a greasy concrete floor. The stench of urine and excreta from a brimming plastic bucket – just one for a cell containing perhaps 20 people –…
Source — France 24
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Africa
Torture
Sierra Leone
Alberto López is a Spanish journalist at the Department of Communication of the Salesian Missions Office in Madrid. A few days ago he visited one of the most inhumane prisons in the world in order to prepare for a documentary on the work of the Salesians with the most disadvantaged young people of…
Source — ANS
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Waiting for justice
Portfolio
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Justice
Overcrowding
Sierra Leone
Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
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Africa
Women
Sierra Leone
Aminata* was only 17 years old when she was arrested for killing her former boyfriend eight years ago. She was sentenced to death for murder in November 2010 and feared each day she would be executed before her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the government on Sierra Leone’s 50th Inde…
Source — All Africa
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Africa
Culture
Sierra Leone
Well, it has taken 7 years, but today I am happy to say that I have finally delivered on the promises I made so rashly back in 2010.
Source — Pabemda Library
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Material conditions
Sierra Leone
On 13 January 2017 the project “Monitoring Access to Justice and Protecting Human Rights through Legal Aid Representation in Places of Detention”, implemented by Prison Watch Sierra Leone and with a budget of €284,000 over 24 months funded by the European Union Delegation to Sierra Leone through th…
Source — European Union
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Africa
Sierra Leone
Recent reforms to Sierra Leone’s prison system have failed to bring much meaningful improvement, according to an IWPR investigation. Official figures show that the current inmate population stands nationally at 3,184, even though the system only has capacity for 1,785.
Source — IWPR
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Africa
Sierra Leone
Child inmates are left to languish in prison with no visitors or legal assistance as many wait years for a trial.
Sorie’s last day of freedom was a few weeks before his 14th birthday, when the well-to-do father of a girl he liked got word that his daughter had been hanging around with a street boy.
Source — Al Jazeera
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Africa
Sierra Leone
DIGNITY and local partner Prison Watch ensures political commitment to ambitious revision of prison legislation in Sierra Leone.
It has been 55 years since the last revision of prison rules in the West African country, but over the past few years the prison authorities – now known as Correctional S…
Source — Dignity Institute
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Africa
Sierra Leone
If you are a good Christian or Muslim, or, humanist, a chill would run through your body, you would shed tears at this.
Source — The Patriotic Vanguard
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Africa
Sierra Leone
Prisoners in Sierra Leone have received Christ, been baptized and even been released thanks to a thriving United Methodist prison ministry.
Source — The People of The United Methodist Church
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Africa
Health
Sierra Leone
Central Freetown’s maximum-security prison was built to house just 324. Today, over 1400 inmates are crammed between its walls.
Source — UNPD
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