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Nigeria: JUSUN strike: prison inmates, suspects in deplorable conditions

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Africa Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Niger
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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Pre-trial detention Europe Access to legal rights Justice Russia
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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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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Polonia: la absolución de las mujeres del halo arcoíris pone en evidencia tácticas de intimidación contra activistas

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Pre-trial detention Women Europe LGBTI Access to legal rights Poland

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Rusia: denuncian el traslado de Navalny de la cárcel a un paradero desconocido

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Asia Access to legal rights Violence Russia

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Argentina: en cumplimiento de un fallo de la CorteIDH, el SPF aprueba un nuevo protocolo de traslados de personas privadas de libertad

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South America Access to legal rights Justice Facilities Social ties Argentina

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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia

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New Zealand: treatment at Auckland women's prison 'degrading' and 'inhumane' - judge

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Women Access to legal rights Oceania Justice Material conditions Violence New Zealand
Corrections broke its own rules and regulations multiple times in its treatment of Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps, who were gassed in their cells and forced to perform a humiliating ritual to be fed, Manukau District Court Judge David McNaughton says. His ruling also confirms the women had to remove…

Source — Rnz

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India: after 70 years, Rajasthan amends prison manual that sanctioned caste-based labour

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Culture Asia Access to legal rights Justice Activities Religion India
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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Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist

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Asia Access to legal rights Material conditions Protest Russia
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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