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Turkey
According to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu, thousands of women were unlawfully jailed in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been targeting followers…
Source — Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Europe
Justice
Facilities
Netherlands
Judges there will be able to handle the sessions of criminal cases, reducing the need to transfer detainees to courthouses elsewhere in the Netherlands. The small courtroom within the walls of the penitentiary will cost 15 million euros and is already under construction, wrote Legal Protection Mini…
Source — NL Times
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Minors
Middle East
Justice
Egypt
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 22 children to lengthy prison sentences ranging between five and 15 years over rare anti-government protests that took place across the country four years ago.
The charges brought against the defendants included posting videos on YouTube calling for the protest…
Source — Middle East Eye
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Middle East
Material conditions
Bahrain
The 162 detainees, who are being held in Building No. 10 of the detention center, located south of the capital Manama, demanded that all prisoners should be treated humanely, and that sustainable guarantees to the full resolution of their problems should be provided, the independent online newspape…
Source — Press TV
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Africa
Material conditions
Violence
Chad
After being rounded up by police over mass protests against Chad’s military junta in October last year, hundreds of mostly young men faced this nightmarish two-day journey to the high-security Koro Toro prison, deep in the hostile Djurab desert. After they arrived at the remote jail, many were sent…
Source — RFI
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Africa
Protest
Ethiopia
Both the government official and residents recounted that the rebel forces broke into a zonal facility which is found in Goro Gudina village, and carried out offensives against the security guards of the center on Saturday night at around midnight.
Deputy mayor of Bule Hora town Girja Urago told Ad…
Source — Addis Standard
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Asia
Torture
China
Chinese human rights activist Lin Mingjie, who is serving a five-year jail term reportedly on fabricated charges, has been subjected to brutal torture in prison, his family members alleged. Lin Mingjie is jailed in Shenyang, the capital city of northeastern Liaoning province. He was subjected to to…
Source — Ucanews
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Middle East
Health
Turkey
According to the İHD report, 39 of 76 inmates who died in prison in 2022 were critically ill.
Speaking to DW, İHD Chairman Öztürk Türkdoğan said the number of ailing prisoners and the death toll could be much higher than the report indicated. Türkdoğan described the situation as a “structural probl…
Source — Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Asia
Health
Bangladesh
Since the beginning of 2022, the ICRC’s Health Care in Detention team in Bangladesh has been training health staff, prison guards and detainees to raise awareness about scabies at the central prisons in Keraniganj, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban and Jessore districts. Posters explaining symptom…
Source — ICRC
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South America
Chile
“There is a group of parliamentarians from both the opposition and the ruling party who have already formally proposed to us the possibility of creating a prison for people serving a sentence who are Mapuche people. We’re looking into that,” Chile’s Undersecretary of State for Justice, Jaime Gajard…
Source — The Rio Times
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Asia
Facilities
North Korea
North Korea has recently been working to reorganize the Yodok concentration camp for political prisoners (also known as Camp 15) and rebuild and repair its facilities with the goal of housing more inmates there, Daily NK has learned.
“North Korea recently eliminated a zone at Camp 15 and repaired a…
Source — Daily NK
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India: Delhi HC says undertrial prisoners can’t be detained in custody for an indefinite period
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Asia
Justice
India
While hearing a bail plea of a man incarcerated for two years in a cheating case, the Delhi High Court recently held that in cases where speedy trial does not seem like a possibility, “undertrial prisoners cannot be detained in custody for an indefinite period”.
A single-judge bench of Justice Amit…
Source — The Indian Express
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Europe
Violence
Belarus
Unbearable conditions are created for dissidents in the Minsk temporary detention center (TDC), where they can be kept for months without hygiene items or a change of clothes. A Minsk resident told Viasna about the two-hour torture and beatings by the officers of the Main Directorate for Combating…
Source — Viasna
Read more Suisse : des détenus accros à la prégabaline mettent les médecins sous pression
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Europe
Health
Switzerland
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Sénégal : le bracelet électronique pourra-t-il désengorger les prisons ?
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Africa
Overcrowding
Senegal
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Asia
Violence
Russia
Long days are spent in forced labor, working at sewing machines, with only a short break for lunch. By nightfall, prisoners are fed dinner and allowed an hour or less of free time before going to sleep in dormitories crowded with scores of bunk beds. The routine reportedly can stretch for weeks on…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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Africa
Access to legal rights
Botswana
Responding to a question from the MP for Selibe-Phikwe West, Dithapelo Keorapetse, the Minister of Justice Machana Shamukuni attributed the judgement debtors to a rise in unemployment, lack of financial literacy and increased cost of living.
Despite calls for a revision of the policy in the face of…
Source — The Botswana Gazette
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Middle East
Access to legal rights
Health
Iran
The report indicates extremely poor health conditions in the detention center, including “dirty” bathrooms, with prison authorities refusing to give the prisoners cleaning supplies despite repeated requests.
Daemi wrote that her report was based on the stories of women who had recently been release…
Source — IranWire
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
Japan is one of the few economically developed countries to still have the death penalty, and hanging has been its sole execution method for around 150 years.
The trio at the Osaka detention centre, whose identities have not been revealed, are “seeking an injunction” against death by hanging, lawye…
Source — RTE
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Europe
Justice
Luxembourg
The ‘Uerschterhaff’ prison was inaugurated with great pomp and ceremony on Wednesday. The Grand Duke, the Ministers of Justice and Public Works, the Mayor of the municipality and the Director of the Prison Administration attended the event.
The facility in Sanem is to be used primarily to separate…
Source — RTL Today
Read more Colombia: El Ministerio de Justicia anuncia un plan para reformar el sistema penitenciario en 2023
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South America
Justice
Colombia
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España: Terapia entre arcilla y pinceles en la prisión
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Europe
Activities
Rehabilitation
Spain
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