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A clash between inmates in two different wings of Korydallos Prison Tuesday left an Afghan detainee and a prison guard with injuries, while underlining the tense climate at Attica’s high-security penitentiary.
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Greece: Covid-19, in prisons isolation is not enough
COVID-19 has forced millions of people around the globe into self-isolation and quarantine
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Europe
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Overcrowding
Greece: tuberculosis cases confirmed at Kassaveteia prison and in Volos
Health authorities in Magnesia have been placed on alert following
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Europe
Greek riot police stormed Athens’ Korydallos prison on Tuesday evening to put a stop to the widespread brawling among inmates which erupted earlier in the day.
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Europe
Violence
Greece: 11 arrested after deadly Serres prison clash
Eleven incarcerated people have been arrested after a deadly confrontation inside a Greek prison
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Coronavirus
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Health
Greece: plan for early release of inmates to curb virus risk
The government has drafted a plan foreseeing the early release of up to 1,500 inmates
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Europe
The organization, which provides social support to young people that are in difficulty or danger, said that there were currently only 1,195 beds available for 3,558 registered unaccompanied minors in Greece, based on data it received from the National Center for Social Solidarity (EKKA).
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Greece: incarcerated people set fires in Corfu prison to protest conditions
A fire broke out at the Corfu prison, after incarcerated people
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Crises
Europe
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Violence
Greece: fire breaks out at Volos Prison following incarcerated people clash
A fire broke out at the Volos Prison in central Greece, following
Greece: reforming prison system and ending police ill-treatment are urgent priorities, says CPT
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Greece: reforming prison system and ending police ill-treatment are urgent priorities, says CPT
After a visit to prisons in Greece last year
Ahmad // 2 // Along the way...
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Testimonial
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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“I have spent three months stateside in the past year. The rest of my time has been split between Greece and Serbia where I have been volunteering with refugees. During this time, I have had the privilege of meeting some of the strongest, most resilient people I have ever met. The friends and conne…
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Europe
Prison populations are ageing but facilities and care are not keeping up with the change. HFHR has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the ECtHR in the case of an 80 year-old woman who claimed her rights were violated while in detention
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Women
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Justice
Protest
animaba a gente a participar en las manifestaciones del 17 de noviembre.
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Greece
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hearings.Tribunals in the Czech Republic, Greece, and the Netherlands were taking similar steps.And courts in the UK have suspended all jury trials “for a short time
Coronavirus
Analysis
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons
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Over the past weeks we’ve seen major changes done to Corradino Correctional Facility with regards to visitation rights and conjugal visits, but how much do we really know about the basic functions of a prison? Jeremy Micallef speaks with Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology Dr Sandra Sc…
Concrete to counter overcrowding?
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Analysis
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Alternatives
Could building prisons help address overcrowding? Prison Insider takes apart, brick by brick, the fragile foundations of this proposition in the second article of our fact-checking series.
Prisons on the margins of European elections
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The citizens of the 27 member States of the European Union will go to the polls from 6 to 9 June. What role do prison issues play in the electoral campaigns?
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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…