Peru
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Read our selection of press reports about this country.
Peru: the country weighs sending foreign imprisoned people to El Salvador
Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign incarcerated people to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said, potentially following in the footsteps of the U.S.’ deportations of migrants to the Central American nation.
Perù : La moda social teje reinserción en las cárceles
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Peru: mutinerie dans une prison, trois morts
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Peru: prison riot over coronavirus fears leaves nine dead
Nine inmates died during a riot at a Lima jail amid fears that Peru’s prisons are becoming a breeding ground for coronavirus after two inmates died of COVID-19 and more than 600 inmates were tested positive. The disturbance broke out at the Miguel Castro Castro jail in the east of the Peruvian capi…Peru: los derechos humanos en las cárceles
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