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Chile: radiografía de la visita conyugal

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South America Women Access to legal rights Social ties Chile

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Ecuador: beneficios de prelibertad a favor de los presos tardan en otorgarse

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South America Access to legal rights Justice Alternatives Ecuador

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Myanmar: junta suspends trials inside Insein prison due to COVID-19

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Myanmar (Burma)
Since March, the junta has set up temporary courts inside prisons in Yangon and elsewhere in the country to hear the cases of political prisoners, most of whom are charged with incitement under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code. “The trials were suspended as of Tuesday. There are around 13,000 people…

Source — The Irrawaddy

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Chine : au sein du Parti communiste chinois, des pouvoirs de police discrétionnaires

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice China

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Canada: abuse, discrimination in immigration detention

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Canada incarcerates thousands of people, including those with disabilities, on immigration-related grounds every year in often abusive conditions, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today in a joint report ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20. The 100-page report, “I Didn’t Feel Like…

Source — Human rights watch

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United States: there’s an aging crisis in New York’s prisons and we need to solve it

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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Rodney Holcombe, New York State Director for Criminal Justice Reform, addresses the New York prison system and the its… Read more
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Nigeria: JUSUN strike: prison inmates, suspects in deplorable conditions

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On April 6, members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) embarked on an indefinite strike over some states’ refusal to grant judiciary autonomy and financial independence. This has led to a nationwide shut down of courts in Nigeria which stalled criminal and civil trials across the country. Some…

Source — Politics

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United States: Mumia Abu-Jamal, how he ended up in prison, and why MOVE wants him freed

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North America Access to legal rights Justice United States
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a 66-year-old former journalist incarcerated in a Pennsylvania state prison for the 1981 shooting death of Officer Daniel Faulkner. “We’re not asking for no apologies. We’re not asking for no investigation, because neither one will mean anything,” said Janine Africa during an April…

Source — Billy Penn

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Rusia: justicia rusa decreta prisión preventiva para Pivovarov a la espera de que se celebre el juicio en su contra

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Pre-trial detention Asia Europe Access to legal rights Russia

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Yemen: detainees tortured and arbitrarily detained for years then forced into exile upon release

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Pre-trial detention Foreign prisoners Middle East Access to legal rights Torture Violence Yemen
The report, Released and Exiled: Torture, unfair trials and forcible exile of Yemenis under Huthi rule, is an in-depth investigation into the experiences of a minority of non-fighters, including journalists, political opponents and Baha’i religious minority members, who were released as part of political…

Source — Amnesty International

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Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in ten countries

Africa Pre-trial detention Asia Elderly prisoners Europe Access to legal rights Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties
The Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) partnered with Prison Insider to share the results of one of its most extensive research projects. We invite you to learn about it below. The world has seen unprecedented growth in prison populations in recent decades and today well over… Read more
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Russia: release prominent lawyer defending Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation from arbitrary detention

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Responding to news that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers have detained Ivan Pavlov, a human rights lawyer defending the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Aleksei Navalny, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director, said: “Lawyers should never be arrested simply…

Source — Amnesty international

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Guinée : après sept mois de détention arbitraire, le militant Oumar Sylla doit être libéré

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Africa Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Health Guinea

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Venezuela: tragedia de Policarabobo, tres años de retardo procesal, frustración, dolor y sed de justicia

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Argelia: tácticas represivas contra activistas de Hirak dos años después

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Africa Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Torture Violence Algeria

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España: décadas sin respuesta a miles de denuncias de desaparición forzada, apropiación y/o sustitución de identidad de niños y niñas

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Women Europe Access to legal rights Violence Spain

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Arabia Saudí: la sentencia que confirma la declaración de culpabilidad de Loujain al Hathloul, una terrible injusticia

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Saudi Arabia

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