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Afghanistan: prison chief laments conditions in country’s jails
In unusually frank comments on April 21, Afghanistan’s new prison chief Ahmad Rashid
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Afghanistan: life in prison, looking to the future from behind bars
For many people, prison is only a place where criminals serve their sentence
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Des ex-détenues ont évoqué des actes de torture et les mauvais traitements infligés aussi à leurs familles
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When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would…
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Afghanistan : selon l’ONU, les tortures continuent dans les prisons
Selon un rapport onusien, plus d’un tiers des personnes détenues pour des
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The leadership of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) released almost 285 detainees from the central prison of Kandahar province on Friday, based on the order of the IEA supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. These prisoners had been arrested on charges of criminal offenses and drug addictio…
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Afghanistan: life inside Kabul’s women’s prison during Covid-19
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country
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Afghanistan: 116 million afghanis prison facilities construction begins in Panjshir
Construction of central prison facilities has officially begun
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Afghanistan: Over 1,200 drug addicts being treated at Herat prison
The drug users are being treated by governmental institutions in cooperation
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Afghanistan: Taliban release nearly 2,500 imprisoned people ahead of Eid
Afghanistan’s Taliban government released nearly 2,500 imprisoned people
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Afghanistan: Herat prison incarcerated people gain skills through vocational training
Officials at Herat Prison say that hundreds of incarcerated
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A survey of Afghan prisons this month by The New York Times concluded that at least 333 children are imprisoned with their mothers nationwide, according to interviews with officials at 33 of the country’s 34 provincial prisons.
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Afghanistan: over 200 imprisoned people freed from Herat prison on the occasion of Eid al-Adha
Officials at the central prison in Herat province say
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Iran has carried out a mass execution of 12 inmates at a prison in the southeast part of the country, an NGO said on Tuesday, as concern grows over the rising number of executions in the Islamic republic
Ahmad // 2 // Along the way...
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Walls and borders.
Ahmad left Afghanistan on the 7th of November, 2015. His journey brought him to prison. This is his story.
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of Torbat-a Jam, at Vakilabad prison, and five in Taybad prison, near Iran’s border with Afghanistan. These, like 88 percent of executions in Iran, weren’t
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Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain US citizens with no criminal charges.
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Excessive wealth, poverty, corruption, impunity: these terms, so often repeated, become trivial and the ingredients which feed the most horrendous violence are still with us. Prison is the ultimate in marking one’s territory
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at 2,336, although the real figure is believed to far higher.Cases linked to Iran have also been reported by Afghanistan, Canada, Lebanon, Pakistan, Kuwait
The shadow of colonialism (III)
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Prison Insider is dedicating a long-format, three-part article to the colonial heritage of prison systems. Part three: Prison, a registered design.