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Zimbabwe: prison inmates urged to embrace Covid-19 vaccine
PRISON inmates have been encouraged to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine whose rollout programme that has been approved by the government. Zimbabwe this week received 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China whose roll out begins today. The Vaccination programme has an overall target o…
République démocratique du Congo : comment lutter contre la malnutrition et les maladies dans les prisons ?
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Ireland: €3.7m spent on medicine for prison inmates over the last two years
More than €3.7m has been spent by the Irish Prison Service on medications for inmates over the past two years. The bill at a single prison can be in excess of €50,000 a month, according to the data, with costs highest at the Midlands Prison in Co Laois. The Irish Prison Service said many of those s…
Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist
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 — particularl…
Algérie : des ONG se mobilisent contre la torture et les conditions de détention
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Arabia Saudí: la conmutación de la pena de muerte impuesta a tres activistas chiíes detenidos cuando eran adolescentes, un avance positivo
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España: ”es injusto y desproporcionado que Pablo Hasél entre en la cárcel”
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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental
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Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente
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Arabia Saudí: la liberación de la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres Loujain al Hathloul llega con mucho retraso
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Chile: interno de cárcel de La Serena se suicida tras acosos de gendarmes por su orientación sexual
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Chile: siguen los abusos en gendarmería, ahora torturan a interna trans en cárcel de Arica
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Iran : huit prisonniers baloutches et arabes ahwazis sont en danger, dans un contexte de hausse inquiétante des exécutions
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Russia: number of inmates decreases
The number of convicts held in correctional system facilities has decreased in Russia up to 482,000 people by the beginning of 2021, the Supreme Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev announced Tuesday. According to the highest instance’s Chairman, the number of detainees continues to decline. Last year,…