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“Parodies of justice” in Iraq
Interview
Interview
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Justice
Death penalty
Torture
Violence
The Iraqi justice system has some flaws – quick trials, non-existent legal assistance and judgements based on confessions rather than the evidence. Yet several countries have declined to repatriate their citizens who are accused of terrorism, putting them at risk of torture or the death penalty.
News
Pre-trial detention
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Health
Torture
Violence
Iraq: torture widespread in detention centers
The United Nations accused the government of Iraq of the widespread torture of detainees held
News
Middle East
Health
Overcrowding
Violence
Iraq: the country addresses viral prison video
Justice Ministry dismissed viral footage showing incarcerated person abuse inside Baghdad’s al-Taji
News
Middle East
Activities
Alternatives
Iraq : university education centers inside Abu Ghraib prison
Iraq’s justice ministry plans to open university education centers inside Baghdad’s
News
Middle East
Material conditions
Concerns overcrowding at prisons for Isis suspects could fuel radicalisation.
News
Crises
Middle East
Facilities
Overcrowding
Iraq: justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect
As a general amnesty law takes effect, the country’s
News
Death penalty
Violence
Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the death penalty published today. The statistics assess known executions worldwide except in China, where figures thought to be in their thousands…
News
Middle East
LGBTQI
a protest against the US invasion of Iraq,” he told Al-Monitor. Seventeen years later, the Lebanese capital continues to be a refuge for those outside
News
Africa
Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.
News
Asia
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.
Death penalty: global trends
Analysis Report
Africa
Analysis
America
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.
News
Coronavirus
Middle East
Health
Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.A number of senior Iranian officials have contracted the virus. Among the latest is the head
News
Middle East
Hasakeh province (Syria) (AFP) - Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty – haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space.
Global Prison Trends 2020
Report
Africa
America
Report
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Over 11 million people are held in prisons worldwide. Many face substandard detention conditions. Sentences keep getting longer, in underfunded justice systems. PRI has published its annual report on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment: Global Prison Trends 2020.
News
Middle East
Torture
A Kurdish-led armed group backed by the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is detaining thousands of Syrian and foreign men and boys in severely overcrowded informal detention centers in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today.
The shadow of colonialism (III)
Analysis
Africa
Analysis
America
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Asia
Justice
Facilities
Prison Insider is dedicating a long-format, three-part article to the colonial heritage of prison systems. Part three: Prison, a registered design.