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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021

Africa Coronavirus North America Central America and the Caribbean South America Asia Elderly prisoners Europe Middle East Oceania Health Mental health Material conditions Activities Social ties
The virus has not stopped at prison gates. What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 29/03/2021 Read more
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Malta: the Corradino correctional facility is “diabolical” and the prison system should be completely revised

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Europe Material conditions Facilities Overcrowding Rehabilitation Malta
The Dean questioned the mechanisms that judges can utilise when handing down sentences to those convicted. “We need to ask: ‘Why are there more people in jail?’ Is it because we are being more efficient in the way we are investigating, or are there other difficulties, such as judges not having other…

Source — Independent

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Italia: detenidos en Francia siete exmiembros de las Brigadas Rojas italianas

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Foreign prisoners Europe Justice Violence Italy

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Irán impone otro año de cárcel a Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, la iranobritánica que liberó el pasado marzo

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Foreign prisoners Middle East Justice Material conditions Iran

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Russia: human rights crisis deepens as Navalny supporters arrested en masse

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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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Saudi Arabia: fears for health of imprisoned human rights defender held incommunicado

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Overcrowding Social ties Saudi Arabia
Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), formerly one of Saudi Arabia’s few independent human rights organizations, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his peaceful activism. His wife told Amnesty International that his family…

Source — Amnesty international

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Ireland: prison university project to "bring third-level to those furthest away from it"

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The Mountjoy and Maynooth University (MJMU) project aims to become a template across the prison service to “disrupt the inevitability” of a life in and out of the prison system for many offenders. Dr Rose Ryan, director of the access programme in MU, said while the university was already involved in…

Source — Irish Times

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Russie : Alexeï Navalny entame une grève de la faim pour protester contre l’absence d’accès à des soins

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Asia Europe Health Torture Russia

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Egypte : 16 personnes, dont au moins trois femmes, exécutés pour des faits de droit commun

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Middle East Death penalty Violence Egypt

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

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South America Access to legal rights Material conditions Facilities Protest Venezuela

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Venezuela: se filtra video de agresiones a reclusos del Rodeo III por parte de custodios

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South America Violence Venezuela

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Brasil: Xuxa propuso que se prueben vacunas y medicamentos en presos “que al menos sirvan para algo”

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Venezuela: limitaciones de movilidad durante cuarentena radical impiden que familiares lleven alimentos a sus detenidos

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Coronavirus South America Health Material conditions Social ties Venezuela

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Líbano: torturas a personas refugiadas sirias detenidas arbitrariamente por cargos antiterroristas

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Middle East Material conditions Torture Violence Lebanon

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Inde : Covid et prison, la vie carcérale pour ces femmes oubliées de la pandémie

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Coronavirus Women Asia Material conditions India

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Suisse : la justice restaurative pourrait faire son entrée dans le Code de procédure pénale

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Europe Justice Switzerland

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Saudi Arabia: human rights activist Mohammed al-Rabiah brutally tortured and at risk of lengthy prison sentence

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Middle East Long-term prisoners Torture Violence Saudi Arabia
ALQST has learned that human rights activist Mohammed al-Rabiah was subjected to brutal torture in detention, including beatings, electric shocks, and being hung upside down. He currently faces trial before the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), where the Public Prosecution is calling for a 25-year prison…

Source — ALQST for Human Rights

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