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In March 2023, formerly incarcerated people from around the globe met at the Incarceration Nations Network (INN) hub in Cape Town for the first edition of the Global Freedom Fellowship. Khalil Chait, who spent 10 years in prison in the Netherlands, was one of them. Interview.
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India
Tihar Jail, located in New Delhi, is one of South Asia’s largest and most notorious prison complexes. The prison was intended as a correctional facility, but the growing spate of violence and gang wars within the jail has cast a shadow over its reputation yet again. Why have the authorities been un…
Source — The Probe
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Women
Asia
Activities
India
Recreational activities will be organised for the children of women inmates in jail in connection with project “Khushi” a campaign of the Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to provide a different environment to children suffering for a crime they have not committed while staying wit…
Source — The Times of India
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Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.
Source — CNN
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Filming the obscurity
Interview
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Rehabilitation
The Netflix documentary series “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons” gives viewers a visual representation of what daily life is like for prisoners around the world. Prison Insider met its host, Raphael Rowe. Interview.
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India
To provide therapeutic treatment to prisoners suffering from neuro and lifestyle disorders, the authorities of Berhampur circle jail have set up a physiotherapy unit inside the prison. Several essential equipment required to run the unit have been procured from the donation provided by a physiother…
Source — The Times of India
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India
As many as 163 prisoners in Ajmer Central Jail have now turned literate, and 62 of them have started studying. Postcards are made available to prisoners to write regularly to their families and share their feelings with them.
“Many prisoners who came to this jail were illiterate, but now they are r…
Source — The Times of India
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Asia
Protest
Myanmar (Burma)
On January 5 at around 11pm, four political prisoners were dragged from their cells in Pathein Prison and brutally beaten by prison authorities.
“They suddenly raided their rooms and found a mobile phone,” said Ko Kyaw Oo, a former political prisoner who now helps others in the Ayeyarwady Region ca…
Source — Frontier Myanmar
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
At the January 27 press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, the lawyers insisted that executions in Japan are being carried out in a state of secrecy, both to the Japanese public and the outer world, and called for more debate on the matter and for…
Source — The Mainichi
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Russia
“Strapped down, had genitals shoved in their faces”. How a prison hospital in Krasnoyarsk became a torture dungeon
Source — The Insider
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Material conditions
Cambodia
Theary Seng’s stand comes ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Cambodia for this week’s ASEAN summits.
Source — The Diplomat
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Vietnam
Trinh Ba Tu’s father was turned back this week after two unsuccessful trips to the prison last month.
Source — Radio Free Asia
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Mental health
India
Taking into account the plight of a condemned prisoner who became mentally-ill after being kept in the solitary confinement for more than 10 years, the Supreme Court on Friday commuted his sentence to 30 years’ jail term without remission.
Source — The Times of India
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