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April 25, 2017

Israeli prison allows homosexual conjugal visit for first time

News

Middle East Social ties Israel

Tarlan Hankishayev, jailed for falsely incriminating suspect in a 2009 gay youth club shooting, wins long fight for rights

April 24, 2017

Iran abolishes death penalty for drug trafficking

News

Middle East Drugs Iran

Iran’s Parliament has abolished the death penalty for dealers, distributors and traffickers of narcotic drugs, replacing this punishment with lifelong imprisonment.

April 18, 2017

Por qué más de mil presos palestinos están en huelga de hambre en las cárceles de Israel

News

Middle East Protest Israel

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April 17, 2017

Plus de 1.000 Palestiniens détenus par Israël en grève de la faim

News

Middle East Protest Israel

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April 17, 2017

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel go on hunger strike

News

Middle East Israel

Thousands of prisoners expected to join rights protest led by Marwan Barghouti that has significant political backing

April 16, 2017

Why we are on hunger strike in Israel’s prisons

News

Middle East Israel

Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a…

April 15, 2017

Another 45 days: the endless uncertainty of pretrial detention in Egyptian prisons

News

Africa Middle East Egypt

Sabry has spent 2 years in prison on terrorism charges pending trial. His detention should legally end ‪on April 16, but will he get out ?

April 13, 2017

Turkey: le journaliste allemand Deniz Yücel se marie en prison

News

Europe Middle East Turkey

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April 11, 2017

Egypt: a physician, committed to helping prisoners, imprisoned himself

Testimonial

Africa Middle East Egypt

“I was lucky, but many are beaten, raped, hung up by their hands…”

April 3, 2017

What’s going on in Turkey’s prisons?

News

Europe Middle East Turkey

Myriad allegations of rights violations in Turkish prisons have marked the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt as thousands of suspected putschists, political dissidents and journalists landed behind bars. In December, a senior UN official said torture seemed to have been “widespread” in the days…

March 28, 2017

Mahmoud al Weesi, Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories

Testimonial

Middle East Israel

“When I was 18, I was arrested and accused of belonging to a terrorist organization”

March 5, 2017

France : après la prison en Syrie, elles témoignent sur scène au Vigan

News

Culture Europe Middle East France

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March 1, 2017

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 d…

February 7, 2017

Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty

News

Middle East Syria

Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest. As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an exterminat…

February 7, 2017

Syrie : l'horrible prison de Saidnaya

News

Middle East Syria

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January 30, 2017

Turkey, Hungary and Romania drive 23% rise in ECHR applications

News

Europe Middle East

Crackdown after failed coup and prison conditions in Romania and Hungary fuel spike in human rights court applications. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s response to the attempted coup in Turkey along with poor conditions in prisons in Hungary and Romania have driven a 23% year-on-year rise in the number of a…

January 30, 2017

Panorama: "Prison, what does it mean to you?"

Insights

North America South America Asia Europe Middle East

We are creating a digital mural showing how people perceive prisons around the world. We invite everyone to produce a one-minute video in reply to this question: “Prison, what does it mean to you?” How to participate Use your smartphone. Film in horizontal format Start recording and count two seco…

January 25, 2017

Kuwait hangs seven prisoners, including royal family member

News

Middle East Kuwait

Kuwait has hanged seven prisoners, including a member of the royal family and a woman convicted of killing more than 40 people, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-rich emirate.

January 3, 2017

Syrie : une Syrienne raconte sa détention dans une prison du régime.

News

Middle East Syria

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January 1, 2017

Gunmen free inmates at Bahrain prison

News

Middle East Protest Bahrain

Gunmen armed with automatic rifles and pistols stormed a Bahraini prison on Sunday, killing a police officer and releasing 10 inmates convicted on terrorism charges, police said. The attack on Jaw Prison represents a significant escalation of the simmering unrest that has gripped the island nation…

December 28, 2016

In Egypt, even helping street children can land you in prison

News

Africa Middle East Egypt

“She has read a lot of books,” says Basel Hijazi about his sister Aya. “Novels do help her escape the reality she is living.” The “reality” he’s referring to, others might call a nightmare. Aya Hijazi, who turns 30 in January, has been in an Egyptian prison since May 2014.

December 27, 2016

“3000 nuits” de Mai Masri : femmes en résistance dans les prisons israëliennes

News

Culture Women Middle East Israel

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December 14, 2016

Children, Palestinians, Prisoners

Investigations

Middle East Israel

Broken childhoods. The title of the report, produced by a consortium of associations including Platform for Palestine and the League of Human Rights, is not simply a title. The reality for these minors who have been interrogated, charged and imprisoned under Israeli military law is beyond comprehen…

December 14, 2016

Children, Palestinians, Prisoners

Testimonial

Middle East Israel

Since 2000, at least 8,500 Palestinian children, that is to say between 500 and 700 per year, have been charged and detained by the Israeli military justice system. Words of child prisoners.