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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021

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

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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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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Death penalty Pakistan

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Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente

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Singapore: recidivism rate at all-time low, more inmates serving part of jail term in community

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According to the latest annual statistics released by SPS, the overall recidivism rate for the 2018 release cohort was 22.1 per cent, down from 24 per cent in 2017 and 23.7 per cent in 2016. This is the lowest it has been since the 1990 release cohort, SPS said. Before this, the lowest rate was 23.6…

Source — Channel news Asia

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Hong Kong: la detención masiva de figuras de la oposición pone de relieve la capacidad represiva de la ley de seguridad nacional

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Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente

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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi y otras personas, detenidas en el golpe militar en curso

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Rusia: Navalny condenado a prisión mientras la detención masiva de sus simpatizantes deriva en hacinamiento grave y condiciones de reclusión crueles

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

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India: "they don’t even look at us as humans. How can we expect them to protect us from the virus?"

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Coronavirus Asia Health Material conditions India
Inmates from Jail Number 14 described the conditions in the jail as bheed-bichham (stuffed), jaanvaron jaisa vyavhar (animalistic behaviour), and insaan bhi nahi samajhte (inhumane). They felt the inmates who tested positive for the virus were kept in even more deplorable conditions, evoking pity and…

Source — The Justice Gap

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Kazakhstan : abolition de la peine de mort

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China: jóvenes de Hong Kong en peligro de tortura tras su sentencia condenatoria en un juicio injusto

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Chine : jusqu'à trois ans de prison pour les HongKongais arrêtés en mer

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice Protest China

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Chine : l’UE demande la libération "immédiate" de la "journaliste citoyenne" Zhang Zhan

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Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence China

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Chine : les autorités confirment la détention de Gulshan Abbas, femme médecin ouïghoure, pour "terrorisme"

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Pakistan: prison reform needed

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A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a risk…

Source — Pakistan today

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India: from segregation to labour, Manu’s caste law governs the prison system

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Culture Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Religion Work India
Caste-based labour, in fact, is sanctioned in the prison manuals of many states. The colonial texts of the late 19th century have barely seen any amendments, and caste-based labour remains an untouched part of these manuals. While every state has its own unique prison manual, they are mostly based on…

Source — The Wire

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India: NCRB to include transpersons as separate category in prison statistics, Delhi HC told

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Coronavirus Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice India
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has agreed to include transgender as a separate category in the gender classification of prisoners in their annual publication of prison statistics 2020, it informed the Delhi High Court on Monday. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma told a Division Bench…

Source — Times now

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Sri Lanka: Amnesty International calls for thorough, impartial probe into prison deaths

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Amnesty International has called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the deaths of at least 11 inmates in a prison riot in Sri Lanka and asked the authorities to implement their commitments to release hundreds of detainees to ease overcrowding and improve conditions in the country’s jails. The…

Source — The Week

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China: cien días después, se deben respetar los derechos de los jóvenes de Hong Kong detenidos

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice China

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