25 results
Africa
Crises
Interview
Access to legal rights
Death penalty
Violence
Social ties
The DRC has experienced a major political and economic crisis for decades, coupled with a civil war. What are the implications for detention? The League of Voluntary Sacrifices for Human Rights and the Environment (Ligue des Sacrifices Volontaires pour les Droits Humains et l’Environnement) answers…
News
Africa
Justice
Death penalty
Democratic Republic of Congo: the country lifts moratorium on death penalty
The country has lifted a moratorium on the death penalty, citing
News
Africa
Eleven people were killed and more than 900 inmates have escaped after unidentified assailants attacked a jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s restive east, an official said.
“The Kangwayi prison in Beni was attacked at 3:30 pm by assailants whose identity is not yet known,” Julien Paluku, go…
News
Africa
Des milliers de détenus logés au Centre pénitentiaire de rééducation de Kinshasa (CPRK) appelé communément Prison centrale de Makala, située dans la commune de Selembao, à Kinshasa, méritent un minimum de conditions carcérales pour bien purger leurs peines judiciaires.
Democratic Republic of Congo: dans les prisons surpeuplées, un risque de contaminations en chaîne
News
News
Africa
Coronavirus
Health
Overcrowding
Democratic Republic of Congo: dans les prisons surpeuplées, un risque de contaminations en chaîne
Le Monde
Congo - Kinshasa
News
Africa
Crises
Women
Violence
Democratic Republic of Congo: hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire
Hundreds of women were raped and burned alive
Democratic Republic of Congo: la prison de Kananga évacuée le temps des travaux de réhabilitation
News
News
Africa
En RDC, la prison de Kananga, dans le Kasaï central, était devenue une passoire. Plusieurs évasions ont été enregistrées ces derniers mois, dont celle de deux des suspects dans l’affaire de l’assassinat des experts des Nations unies, au mois de mai.
News
Africa
Health
Violence
Ces décès sont notamment dus à une rupture de stocks en nourriture et en médicaments.
News
Africa
Health
Overcrowding
Violence
Au moins onze détenus sont morts depuis le début de l’année dans la plus importante prison de Kinshasa, en raison d’une rupture de stocks en nourriture et en médicaments, a-t-on appris de sources pénitentiaire et humanitaire.
News
Africa
Protest
Overcrowding
La situation carcérale est dramatique en République Démocratique du Congo, où les évasions et tentatives d’évasion sont très fréquentes.
News
Africa
Crises
Women
Minors
Protest
Overcrowding
Violence
Democratic Republic of Congo: survivors reveal full horror of prison inferno where more than 100 women were raped and burned alive when men staged
News
Africa
Women
Violence
escape from Democratic Republic of Congo’s Makala Central Prison this month, an internal U.N. report reviewed by Reuters showed.
Reuters
Congo - Kinshasa
News
Africa
Crises
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Violence
Republic of Congo - two people who have been inside used the exact same word: “hell”.“Makala is not a prison, but a detention centre resembling
News
Africa
Death penalty
Torture
DRC: “psychologically, I am no longer human’ – life after 20 years on death row”
On January 16, 2001, the Democratic Republic of Congo President
News
Africa
Death penalty
DRC: psychologically, I am no longer human’ – life after 20 years on death row
On January 16, 2001, the Democratic Republic of Congo President
Africa
Analysis
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Death penalty
Torture
Social ties
Since 2003, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has observed a de facto moratorium on executions. The authorities do not release any information regarding the application of the death penalty in the country.
DRC: tackling the death penalty head-on
Interview
Africa
Interview
Material conditions
Death penalty
Torture
Social ties
The death penalty is still in force in the DRC. Death sentences continue to be imposed despite a de facto moratorium on executions. ACAT-DRC is performing long-running advocacy work to achieve abolition. Interview.
Africa
Testimonial
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
D. is incarcerated in the Mpimba prison. He is one of over 4000 inmates in a dilapidated establishment that was designed to hold up to 800. He describes his day to day life.
Chin up! Let’s escape!
Analysis Inside Outside
Africa
Analysis
North America
South America
Asia
Inside Outside
Europe
Middle East
Alternatives
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. Twelfth piece: prison break.
Côte d'Ivoire: a game-changing assist
Interview
Africa
Interview
Health
Activities
Rehabilitation
Does sport improve living conditions and help prisoners reintegrate into society? That is the hope of the organisation La Balle aux Prisonniers (LaBAP). Its founders are convinced that sport can be a vehicle for social inclusion, integration and equal opportunity. Interview.