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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch investigated in detail nine cases of arbitrary, prolonged detention of civilians by the Ukrainian authorities in informal detention sites and nine cases of arbitrary,prolonged detention of civilians by Russia-backed separatists.
This report details cases…
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In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
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Open Russia, a la espera de que se celebre el juicio en su contra por su presunta participación en una “organización indeseable”.El activista de 39 años
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Six prison employees have been arrested and at least 17 fired following the release of a 2017 video showing a detainee being tortured at a prison outside Moscow.
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Just three days after Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Lazarenko was taken prisoner in the war in Ukraine’s east, a peace agreement was signed under which the sides agreed to an “all-for-all” prisoner exchange. A year and a half later, his wife still waits desperately for his return.
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Ruslan Vakhapov says ‘desire for revenge in a legal way’ led him to expose brutality in prison system.
He recognised all the prison guards on trial last month for the brutal torture of an inmate in a Yaroslavl prison. They used to be his jailers too.
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Zelensky said the decision was ‘not easy from the moral point of view’but he stressed that the defence of the nation was now the highest priority.
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Recrutés directement par Evgueni Prigojine, patron des mercenaires du Groupe Wagner, les détenus sont placés en première ligne des combats. Très peu en réchappent.
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: Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey… all countries with rubbish democratic credentials.There are about 800 prisoners in Corradino at the moment; about half of them
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Doubling down on the drug war is likely to result in increased violence, not increased public safety.
Russian prisoners : backtracking
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Russian prisoners : backtracking
— Published 9 February 2018.¶A shortage of medical assistance, abusive convictions…Russia continues to violate
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Les conditions dans lesquelles est détenu le militant politique russe Alexeï Navalny semblent empirer, selon des informations et des photos publiées récemment.
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Third piece: institutions.
What's it like to live in a Brazilian prison cell? Cramped, dirty, and dangerous to your health
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Imagine sharing a room with 40 other people in a space made for 12. Imagine having to hang your mattress close to the ceiling because the sewage system often clogs and floods the room with dirty water up to 40 centimeters high.
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500 cas de violences, dont une quarantaine de viols.
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The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war.
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Inappropriate conditions in a Moldovan prison from Transnistria, the reason for a new condemnation of our country to the ECHR. The state will have to pay 6300 euros to 2 people who have claimed justice before the European Court.
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précédentes audiences.
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