Justice
Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Analysis
Report
Asia
Justice
Torture
Nepal
For the first time in more than ten years, our correspondent in Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF), is not in a position to conduct an assessment of whether the overall situation in regard of torture in police custody, during the last year, has improved or deteriorated.
This is due to a lack of cooperation from…
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South America
Justice
Brazil
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Courrier International
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Asia
Justice
Indonesia
Jakarta: Indonesians who join terrorist groups overseas will face a maximum 15 years’ jail under new anti-terrorism laws expected to be passed by September.
The new laws will enable authorities to crack down on Indonesians who return after fighting with the Islamic State in Syria or the Philippines.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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Asia
Justice
Torture
China
Recent proposals to reform China’s police-run detention centers are unlikely to do much to address a nationwide “human rights disaster” for police suspects in detention, human rights lawyers told RFA.
The country’s Ministry of Public Security issued a call for consultation this week on a replacement…
Source — Radio Free Asia
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North America
Justice
Drugs
United States
Local authorities revived Smith, arrested him, and then gave him two options: he could go to jail or he could go into treatment. Smith chose treatment—or at least that’s what he thought. What Smith chose, more specifically, was to go through the alternative sentencing program known as drug court, which…
Source — Open Society Foundations
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Asia
Justice
Philippines
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Courrier International
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Suisse : prison à vie, internement à vie, internement ordinaire, quelles sont les différences ?
News
Europe
Justice
Switzerland
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Tribune de Genève
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Do you dare? - Open letter to Mr. Macron
Prison Insider's editorials
Justice
Overcrowding
Romania
The inmates in Romania who are serving time in improper conditions may have their sentences reduced by 20%. The Chamber of Deputies adopted on Tuesday, May 9, the project that provides that, for every 30 days spent in improper conditions, an inmate would have his sentence reduced by six days.
Source — Romania Insider
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North America
Justice
Canada
Elimination of some minimum mandatory sentences and reform of bail system will be under review
Source — CBC News
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Africa
Justice
Chad
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — La Croix
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Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Romania
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (25 April) took Romania to task for its dismal prison conditions, saying they could be considered inhumane and degrading.
Source — Euractiv
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North America
Justice
United States
Every day and night, former Louisiana prosecutor A.M. Stroud thinks about Glenn Ford, the man he wrongfully sent to prison for almost half of his life and who would have been executed by the state had he not been exonerated 30 years after his conviction.
Source — The Advocate
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Justice
Drugs
Tunisia
Tunisian parliament votes to ease country’s harsh drug laws aftercalls from rights groups, civil society for broader reform of ‘Law 52’.
Source — Middle East Online
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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
Justice
Torture
Kenya
Mistreatment of Kenya’s Muslim Somali community detailed in report last year by human rights commission
Source — AA
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Asia
Justice
Indonesia
The House of Representatives’ working committee for the amendment of the Criminal Code (KUHP) is looking into alternative forms of punishment in addition to imprisonment.
Source — The Jakarta Post
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Annual penal statistics
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
On 1st September 2015, there were 1 404 398 inmates held in penal institutions across Europe. On the same date in 2014, there were 1 507 278 inmates (for the exactly same prison administrations and, in 2013 there were 1 529 447 inmates. The total number of inmates has been decreasing.
The median proportion…
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When murder occurs in the name of justice
Analysis
Opinion
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine.
The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 death…
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