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In less than a week, Thailand’s Department of Corrections has reported over 11,000 new COVID cases in 13 of the country’s prisons. When the daily number of new COVID-19 cases reached a record high for the entire country on Monday, May 17, 71 percent of the 9,635 new infections reported were in prisons.…
Source — The Diplomat
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The UN resident coordinator in Cambodia, Pauline Tamesis, told The Post on May 19 that the UN has engaged with prison authorities and humanitarian partners to assess the situation. They will provide support for the affected inmates and preparedness to prevent and contain the disease in the prison.
“In…
Source — Phnom Penh Post
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The protest in the prison in western Russia involved three people from the Russian republic of Daghestan and an Azerbaijani native.
Their relatives told Caucasian Knot that inmates were confined to punishment cells without justification and even threatened with torture for expressing dissatisfaction…
Source — OC media
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The regional State Penitentiary Service said on April 25 that the incident had taken place four days earlier, adding that the two inmates were provided with medical assistance and their “current health state is satisfactory.”
Inmates in Kazakhstan’s penitentiaries often maim themselves to protest brutality…
Source — Radio free Europe
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Even as the Bombay High Court has suggested shifting undertrial prisoners from crowded jails to other jails for an “equitable distribution” in light of an alarming rise in Covid-19 case, data from the prison department shows that nearly all prisons in the state are filled to capacity or are overcrowded.
Apart…
Source — The indian express
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Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of all those who have been detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and for the immediate release of Aleksei Navalny who is being arbitrarily detained and denied access to independent healthcare.
“On Wednesday, in…
Source — Amnistía internacional
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Parit Chiwarak, 22, was charged in February with sedition and defaming the monarchy for his role in leading demonstrations. Parit’s lawyer requested bail for him and three others charged with the same offences, but the court denied it.
Corrections officials at Pathumthani Detention Center north of Bangkok…
Source — Washington post
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Inde : Covid et prison, la vie carcérale pour ces femmes oubliées de la pandémie
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Maharashtra prison department has started Covid-19 vaccination drive for the inmates at Arthur Road Jail or Mumbai Central Prison. Around 39 inmates were vaccinated till Saturday.
Sunil Ramanand, additional director general of police, Maharashtra prison department, confirmed that the vaccination drive…
Source — Hindustantimes
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Satellite imagery shows an expansion of some prison camps near mines that has coincided with global sanctions being ratcheted up on Kim Jong Un’s regime to punish it for its nuclear weapons programs, according to a report released Friday by the Citizens Alliance for North Korea Human Rights, a Seoul-based…
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As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
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As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the Thai authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
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Rusia: denuncian el traslado de Navalny de la cárcel a un paradero desconocido
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Chinese authorities should account for the death of a Tibetan tour guide serving a 21-year sentence for reporting protests in his native region seven years ago, Human Rights Watch said today.
Kunchok Jinpa, 51, died in a hospital in Lhasa in the Tibetan Autonomous Region on February 6, 2021, less than…
Source — Human Rights Watch
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Malaysia
With Malaysia already facing an impending prison overcrowding issue where close to 70,000 are currently serving jail terms for various offences across the country, lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo urged the government to stop sending movement control order (MCO) offenders to prison as it will only worsen the…
Source — Malay Mail
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The North Korean authorities have reportedly ordered the expansion of political prison camps in the country. A source told Daily NK that North Korea, having declared war on the so-called “anti-socialist and non-socialist phenomenon” during the recent Eighth Party Congress, intends to overhaul its incarceration…
Source — Daily NK
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Violence, misgendering, medical negligence and routine denial of legal aid — are what mark the experience of transgender inmates in prisons across India. In her reports for The Wire, Sukanya Shantha tracks how vulnerable one such group — the transgender community — is in India’s prisons.
Sukanya finds…
Source — The Wire
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For over 70- years, the Rajasthan state had followed an unconstitutional and violative prison manual that allowed assignment of labour on the basis of a prisoner’s caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until The Wire’s report exposed the conditions in prisons of Rajasthan…
Source — The Wire Impact
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In recent weeks, the Russian authorities arrested thousands of demonstrators at protests across the country, sentencing hundreds to several days or weeks in jail. For many of these people, behind bars for the first time in their lives, state custody was a uniquely upsetting experience — particularly…
Source — Meduza
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Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente
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The number of convicts held in correctional system facilities has decreased in Russia up to 482,000 people by the beginning of 2021, the Supreme Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev announced Tuesday.
According to the highest instance’s Chairman, the number of detainees continues to decline. Last year, such…
Source — RAPSI
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