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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 23/11/20
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Russia: former political prisoner takes Russia to court over torture conditions in Crimean prison
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Russia
Hearings have begun in occupied Crimea into the lawsuit brought by Kazim Ametov against Russia’s penitentiary service and police over the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years. The chances of a Russian-controlled “court” finding in favour of the former political prisoner are remote,…
Source — The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
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Women
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Thailand
The group, led by Ploy Dechwongsa and Kornkanok Khumta, held up signs saying “unchain political prisoners” and “this is all they can do to us” in front of the Central Women Correctional Institution. They also read a statement calling for the Department of Corrections to follow the International Covenant…
Source — Prachatai
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Smell — 11/12
Inside Outside
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Women
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Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Tailandia: deben retirarse los cargos injustificados y poner en libertad a personas que se manifestaron pacíficamente
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Taste — 10/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Bangladesh: hay que liberar a cientos de trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes en detención arbitraria
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Bangladesh
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Mapping the 'Blind Spots'
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Africa
North America
Women
Asia
Death penalty
CartONG and Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) united since September 2019 to create maps aimed at raising awareness about the situation of people on death row worldwide. Nine maps have been produced to date. On March 8th, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the two organisations…
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Coronavirus
Asia
Facilities
Thailand
Thailand plans to turn about half its prisons into tourist attractions to boost visitor numbers as the Southeast Asian nation struggles to recover from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Source — Jakarta Post
Read more Cambodia: ONG exigen que cumpla su promesa de liberar a 10.000 presos
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Cambodia
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Kirghizistan: Azimjan Askarov, défenseur des droits humains, meurt en prison
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Kyrgyzstan
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Asia
Torture
China
The human rights lawyer gives first interview since finishing his sentence in April. He spent four years in jail for “subversion against the state”. After being beaten for hours, the prison authorities forced him to sign an affidavit declaring his guilt. Wang: “Police, investigating magistrates and judges…
Source — Asia News
Read more À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie
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Global Prison Trends 2020
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Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Over 11 million people are held in prisons worldwide. Many face substandard detention conditions. Sentences keep getting longer, in underfunded justice systems. PRI has published its annual report on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment: Global Prison Trends 2020.
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Asia
Violence
Azerbaijan
Political prisoners in Azerbaijan say that they are often subject to harassment and persecution that lasts for years even after their release from jail.
Zaur Qurbanli, a member of the NIDA youth movement, was detained in 2013 on charges of carrying a firearm. It was a part of a wave of arrests of individuals…
Source — IWPR
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Asia
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Work
Taiwan
A Taiwanese technical mission to the Pacific island nation of Nauru is helping a penal facility improve food self-reliance and is teaching inmates skills they can use after their release, the team said yesterday.
“The project, with the goal of minimizing waste, officially started in January, with a poultry…
Source — Tapei Times
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Asia
Drugs
Overcrowding
Cambodia
At the beginning of the year, Cambodia’s largest prison facility exceeded 9,500 prisoners – which is 463% over its maximum capacity of 2,050
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want reforms to be deepened and made permanent, through the review and amendment of the Law on Drug Control
‘Cambodia’s…
Source — Amesty International
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Touch — 9/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Afghanistan
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul.
In Afghanistan’s overcrowded prisons,…
Source — France 24
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Thailand
BANGKOK — A university is working with a prison to help tackle overcrowding and unhygienic conditions that have stalked the Thai corrections system for years.
In a joint project by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and Thonburi Remand Prison, architecture students are asked to come up…
Source — Khaosod English
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Unclear fates behind bars
Interview
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
“Since 2000, the overall number of pre-trial detainees has increased by 30%”. They are now up to three million people to be held awaiting trial around the world. What is the purpose of pre-trial detention? How it is used around the world?
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Asia
Torture
China
Three anti-government protesters said on Tuesday that they had been tortured and abused while detained in a Hong Kong prison, alleging they were taken to areas away from surveillance footage and beaten and slapped.
Appearing via Skype and in a pre-recorded video shown at a press conference organised…
Source — RTHK
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