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News
Africa
Este activista abolicionista, que ha sufrido cárcel en tres ocasiones, se presenta a las presidenciales para intentar terminar con el apartheid que practica el gobierno con la población negra.
Mauritania: ordinary detention
Testimonial
Africa
Testimonial
Mohamed faces a police check. He is arrested and placed in custody for lack of proper documentation. He spends one week there. He tells his story.
Mauritania: sentenced to death then pardoned
Testimonial
Africa
Testimonial
Death penalty
Violence
Fatimata was sentenced to death. Pardoned in 2016, she tells her story.
Africa
Testimonial
Abass is incarcerated in Nouakchott. He is then transferred to Dar Naïm prison. This is his story.
Africa
Analysis
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Death penalty
Torture
Social ties
Mauritania has a moratorium on executions. Figures about the prisoners sentenced to death are scarce, as is information on their detention conditions. These prisoners are under the same detention regime as the rest of the prison population.
News
Africa
Women
Protest
Violence
La “Maison de la Liberté”, organisation de la société civile, ONG engagée dans la défense des droits humains, ainsi que dans la lutte contre l’esclavage et les séquelles qu’il peut laisser, exprime ce dimanche sa vive inquiétude au sujet d’une mutinerie des pensionnaires de la prison pour femmes d…
News
Africa
Death penalty
Violence
Pourquoi la Mauritanie qui n’a plus exécuté de condamnés à mort depuis 1987 continue à maintenir la peine capitale dans son arsenal législatif, alors que les pays d’Afrique sont de plus en plus nombreux à renoncer à cette pratique ?
News
Africa
Death penalty
Violence
La peine de mort n’y est plus appliquée depuis 1987, pourtant les condamnations à la peine capitale se poursuivent. Paradoxe à l’image d’une justice parent pauvre d’un pays… pauvre.
Interview
Death penalty
Violence
penalty, for instance Mauritania. These prisoners are not given any specific protection. The association Planet Refugees – Human Rights and many other
Years in the Row
Analysis Thematic paper
Africa
Analysis
Women
Asia
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Discipline
Health
Thematic paper
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Torture
Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.
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.
Analysis
Opinion
Death penalty
Violence
Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, and Yemen, in addition to some provinces in Nigeria and Somalia. ↩
In many contexts, persons awaiting trial and who
A very disturbing situation
Interview
Africa
Europe
Interview
Middle East
Torture
Violence
The torture and abuse of prisoners have become commonplace over the years. How did these excesses come about? A recently published report takes up this topic.
Europe: criminalisation of existence
Interview
Europe
Interview
Foreign prisoners
Justice
How do security policies target migrants, the economically vulnerable, or racialised individuals? A workshop examined the decriminalisation of migration and poverty and the challenges civil society faces in presenting a counter-narrative. Lawyers Without Borders reflected on the discussions.
Guantánamo: what torture does to people
Testimonial
North America
Testimonial
Justice
Death penalty
Torture
Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years in Guantánamo, enduring torture, humiliation and degrading treatment. He came to share his story at Concertina alongside Sylvain Savolainen, a lawyer who became his friend.