Europe
Europe
Protest
United Kingdom
Video shows inmates whooping with excitement during six-hour rampage.Prison guards were forced to retreat to a ‘safe place’ until riot officers arrived.
Source — Huffington Post
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Europe
France
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Source — Journal du Dimanche
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Europe
Violence
United Kingdom
Justice Secretary Liz Truss is due to hold urgent talks with leaders of the Prison Officers Association as concerns grow about safety in jails.
The union had planned meetings outside each jail on Tuesday, to highlight fears over increasing violence and suicides in English and Welsh prisons. The move…
Source — BBC
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Europe
Middle East
Turkey
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Source — Nuit et Jour
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Asia
Europe
Torture
Russia
Russian officials are investigating claims that a well-known opposition activist has been repeatedly beaten and threatened in prison.
Ildar Dadin is serving two and a half years for a series of street protests.
He told his lawyer that he had been strung up by his handcuffed wrists, had his head shoved…
Source — BBC
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Europe
Middle East
Death penalty
Violence
Turkey
Thousands of people were arrested after failed coup in July. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the government will soon submit a bill to Parliament to reinstate the death penalty amid calls for the execution of the plotters of a failed coup in July.
Addressing crowds in Ankara on Saturday,…
Source — CBC News
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Europe
France
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Source — France Culture
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Europe
Discipline
Justice
Facilities
Religion
France
France’s Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, announced on Tuesday the end of French prison wings for radicalized inmates, promising a new “regime” instead.
France has five prisons with experimental de-radicalisation wings for dangerous Islamist extremists, and all these units will be shut down.
Source — The Local
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Europe
Middle East
Turkey
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Source — Mediapart
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Europe
France
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Source — Le Point & AFP
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Europe
Overcrowding
France
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Source — Le Point
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Europe
Violence
Belgium
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Source — Le Soir
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Europe
Protest
Violence
France
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Source — 20 minutes & AFP
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Women
Europe
Middle East
Torture
Turkey
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Source — Kedistan
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Europe
Access to legal rights
Switzerland
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Source — Tribune de Genève
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Europe
France
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Source — La voix du Nord
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