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“Nine Circles of Hell”
Report
Report
Europe
Facilities
Torture
DIGNITY and a consortium of organisations report countless violations of human rights and international law committed between March and December 2022 in Ukrainian prisons under Russian occupation. Read their main findings.
News
Asia
Europe
Torture
Alexander Zarechnev is one of a growing number of Russians to break their silence over violence and torture in Russian prisons after a widely shared video of guards beating an inmate shocked the country.
News
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Torture
Violence
personas detenidas por expresarse pacíficamente deben ser puestos en libertad inmediatamente.
Amnistía Internacional
Russia
Map with a view
Insights
Culture
Insights
Facilities
: it was brought from Russia by Jeremy Bentham, germinated in London, flourished in America and brought into France by Alexis de Tocqueville. European countries
News
Asia
Europe
Health
Torture
jugent politiquement motivée. Il a été également visé par de multiples autres procédures judiciaires.
Le Monde
Russia
Death penalty: global trends
Analysis Report
Africa
Analysis
North America
Report
Asia
Death penalty
Violence
Reduction of 30% in the number of executions, decrease in the number of countries having recourse to the executions: human rights organisation Amnesty international publishes its 2018 report on recourse to the death penalty.
Ukraine: prisons in the war
Interview
Crises
Europe
Interview
Violence
Dozens of Ukrainian prisons are under the control of Russian forces. Prisoners can hear the bombing from their closed cells. What is the fate of ordinary prisoners during the conflict?
News
Europe
Justice
Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission, says Romania, which currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, must make further efforts to fully reach European standards on the rule of law. Mr Juncker’s comments were directed at the political wrangling in Romania over the…
News
Asia
Access to legal rights
Violence
absurdas, injustificadas y sin ningún impacto real.
ANSA y Reuters para La Nación
Russia
News
Women
Experts say that jailing women has far-reaching societal repercussions.
News
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Access to legal rights
Protest
Overcrowding
Violence
Código Penal de Rusia.
Amnistía Internacional
Russia
News
Justice
This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Tajikistan, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) in advance of its pre-sessional review of Tajikistan in July 2019. We hope it will inform the…
News
Europe
Justice
Health
Violence
A Ukrainian organisation defending human rights shares its concerns regarding the situation of prisoners.
News
Asia
Europe
L’affaire Sergueï Magnitski, du nom du juriste russe mort en prison en 2009 après avoir dénoncé un scandale de corruption, avait déchaîné une tempête diplomatique entre Moscou et Washington.
News
Women
Middle East
In Israel, there are around 25,000 men in prison. Some 14,000 of these are convicted on criminal charges. The rest are incarcerated on security-related charges – and are mostly Palestinian. In comparison, there are just 200 women in prison in the Holy Land. And they’re all in one place – Neve Tirza…
News
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Protest
del 90% fueron detenidas durante las protestas, informó Litvinovich a la agencia de noticias rusa Tass.
La Nación
Russia
News
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Protest
los de Moscú.
Amnistía Internacional
Russia
Coronavirus
Culture
Europe
Interview
Justice
Concertina’s goal is to convene people from various backgrounds and disciplines, all motivated by detention and incarceration.
Ukraine: news from the front lines
Interview
Crises
Europe
Interview
Material conditions
Torture
Violence
Half a year has passed since the beginning of the war. How has the situation evolved in prison? Vadym Chovgan (Danish Institute against Torture) accepted to update us on the recent developments. Interview.
Unclear fates behind bars
Interview
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Europe
Interview
Middle East
Oceania
“Since 2000, the overall number of pre-trial detainees has increased by 30%”. They are now up to three million people to be held awaiting trial around the world. What is the purpose of pre-trial detention? How it is used around the world?