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Argelia: tácticas represivas contra activistas de Hirak dos años después

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Polonia: la absolución de las mujeres del halo arcoíris pone en evidencia tácticas de intimidación contra activistas

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Pre-trial detention Women Europe LGBTI Access to legal rights Poland

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Bielorrusia: las autoridades atacan a menores de edad para reprimir la disidencia

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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia

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

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Hong Kong: la detención masiva de figuras de la oposición pone de relieve la capacidad represiva de la ley de seguridad nacional

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Protest Hong Kong SAR China

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Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente

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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi y otras personas, detenidas en el golpe militar en curso

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Violence Myanmar (Burma)

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Rusia: Navalny condenado a prisión mientras la detención masiva de sus simpatizantes deriva en hacinamiento grave y condiciones de reclusión crueles

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Canada : bannir les courtes peines de prison pour éviter des suicides

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North America Pre-trial detention Justice Mental health Suicide Alternatives Canada

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Egypt: abused and denied heath care, prisoners’ lives at risk

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Africa Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions Overcrowding Torture Violence Egypt
Prison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture, cruel and inhuman conditions of detention and are deliberately denying them health care to punish dissent. The report, “What do I care if you die?” Negligence and denial of health care in…

Source — Amnesty International

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Pakistan: prison reform needed

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Overcrowding Social ties Alternatives Pakistan
A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a risk…

Source — Pakistan today

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Turquía: nueva resolución sobre Osman Kavala deja claro que debe ser excarcelado de inmediato

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Thailand: activists protest against human rights violations in women’s prison

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Pre-trial detention Women Asia Access to legal rights Protest Thailand
The group, led by Ploy Dechwongsa and Kornkanok Khumta, held up signs saying “unchain political prisoners” and “this is all they can do to us” in front of the Central Women Correctional Institution. They also read a statement calling for the Department of Corrections to follow the International Covenant…

Source — Prachatai

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France: l’indignité des conditions de détention provisoire comme motif de mise en liberté

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Pre-trial detention Europe Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions France

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Venezuela: denuncian violación de DDHC a reclusos en la subdelegación Cicpc Las Acacias

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Pre-trial detention South America Access to legal rights Justice Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Venezuela

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France: le Conseil constitutionnel exige une loi pour faire respecter la dignité humaine en prison

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Pre-trial detention Europe Access to legal rights Justice France

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United Kingdom: lockdown conditions leave prisoners at risk of serving longer sentences

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Lockdown conditions in prisons have effectively ended opportunities for prisoners to take part in rehabilitation activities and progress in their sentences. For the nearly 11,000 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences (9,000 unreleased; 2,000 recalled), this could lead to them spending significantly…

Source — Prison reform trust

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France: en 2019, près de 54 000 étrangers sans titre de séjour ont été enfermés

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Australia: prisoner advocates call for abolition of 'discriminatory' voting restrictions as inmates prepare to cast vote in state election for the first time

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Oceania Health Material conditions Overcrowding Rehabilitation Australia
Prior to the legislative changes that came into effect in January, Queensland had the most restrictive prisoner voting laws in the country, with inmates barred from participating in state or local government elections. Now, prisoners serving sentences of less than three years will be given the power…

Source — ABC

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Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic

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Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the same…

Source — InSight Crime

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