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Chin up! Let’s escape!
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Twelfth piece: prison break.
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Iran
Taher Naghavi, an imprisoned lawyer who once represented political prisoners and families seeking justice, began his hunger strike on October 27 after prison authorities rejected his request for medical furlough.
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Syria
Syria’s missing persons body is reviewing the Damascus Dossier as families say they have blindsided with details of relatives’ fates leaked without permission.
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Israel
Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that incarcerated people cannot move without climbing over one another, and others sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.
Wrinkles and punishment
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Eleventh piece: ageing prison population.
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Iran
Extended water cuts at Fashafoyeh Prison in Tehran have created several health problems for incarcerated people as the capital implements water rationing, a human rights organization reported.
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A Kurdish prisoner held in Iran for over two years is in critical condition after authorities denied him medical treatment following torture, a human rights group said.
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Israel
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has revealed harrowing conditions faced by Palestinian in the Rakevet section of the Israeli Ramla prison, describing a systematic campaign of starvation, torture, medical neglect, and humiliation.
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Iran
A British incarcerated person in Iran has been moved from one prison to another following the deaths of fellow incarcerated people and hunger strikes.
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Iran
Political prisoners at Qezvin Prison have had their phone access restricted to two hours per day, reportedly without the prison director’s knowledge, according to information obtained by IranWire.
Iran: deaths of incarcerated people reignite calls for closure of "uninhabitable" women's prison
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Iran
In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for severe overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate medical care.
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Iran
Political prisoner Mehdi Farahi began a hunger strike to protest the death of a female political prisoner and conditions for women at Qarchak Prison.
Hostile territory
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Tenth piece: the climate challenge.
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Iran
A 21-hour power outage at Sheiban Prison left incarcerated people in critical condition during extreme heat, human rights sources reported on Thursday. Power was cut from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 6 p.m. Wednesday as temperatures in Ahvaz exceeded 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Israel
The petition alleged that the policy of trimming down food counts as hunger and holding incarcerated people in torturous conditions, which goes against both Israeli law and international law.
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Israel
Only one in four incarcerated person from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.