Death penalty
Pre-trial detention
Women
Asia
Access to legal rights
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Sri Lanka
The emergency has been caused by a lack of adequate facilities and the extensive use of preventive detention pending trial. There are at least 40,000 people in prison on the island in facilities with a total capacity of only 10,500 places.
America
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Facilities
Death penalty
United States
A US federal judge temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row incarcerated people to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility.
Africa
Women
Access to legal rights
Death penalty
Sudan
The women are reportedly without legal representation amid the collapse of the justice system, and the restriction of the work of legal aid organisations. The activists highlight that the women’s situation “requires urgent and effective solidarity”.
Asia
Drugs
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Sri Lanka
In response to the Prisons Commissioner’s remarks that drug traffickers sentenced to death should be hanged, the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) criticised the statement, saying that executions are not the solution to Sri Lanka’s prison overcrowding.
Asia
Mental health
Death penalty
Torture
Violence
India
“I was once a professional and a free mind. Now I am not,” says Asif Khan who was on death row and was acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case.
Guantánamo: what torture does to people
Testimonial
North America
Justice
Death penalty
Torture
United States
Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years in Guantánamo, enduring torture, humiliation and degrading treatment. He came to share his story at Concertina alongside Sylvain Savolainen, a lawyer who became his friend.
North America
Mental health
Suicide
Death penalty
United States
A man convicted of murder in Bay County who was sitting on death row has committed suicide in prison.
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Drugs
Death penalty
Iran
The death sentences of six incarcerated people previously convicted on drug-related charges were carried out in Bandar Abbas Prison.
Crises
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Drugs
Death penalty
Iran
Human rights groups have expressed serious concern over the growing number of executions of Afghan migrants in Iran, warning of rising injustice and lack of fair trials.
Africa
Crises
Access to legal rights
Death penalty
Violence
Social ties
Congo - Kinshasa
The DRC has experienced a major political and economic crisis for decades, coupled with a civil war. What are the implications for detention? The League of Voluntary Sacrifices for Human Rights and the Environment (Ligue des Sacrifices Volontaires pour les Droits Humains et l’Environnement) answers…
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Drugs
Death penalty
Iran
According to HRANA, the executed person was an Afghan national. His identity is currently being verified. Sources indicate that the incarcerated person had been arrested on drug-related charges and was later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Death penalty
Torture
Social ties
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior has reported that journalist Turki al-Jasser was executed after spending seven years in prison on charges of treason, collaboration with foreign entities, financing terrorism and jeopardising national security and unity.
Crises
Minors
Middle East
Drugs
Death penalty
Social ties
Iran
Iran executed at least 163 imprisoned people in May, marking a 143 percent increase from the 67 executions recorded in May 2024, according to a human rights organization.
Crises
North America
LGBTQI
Justice
Material conditions
Death penalty
Alternatives
United States
Since taking office, the Trump administration has taken actions to eviscerate due process and the rule of law, make prison and jail conditions worse, expand the use of extreme sentences and harsh law enforcement tactics, eliminate oversight, undermine solutions that reduce incarceration.