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Niger: the cost of living
Testimonial
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Testimonial
Health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Two prisoners attest to their conditions in overpopulated prisons. A way to survive: pay, every month, for access to better prison conditions.
News
Africa
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News
Africa
Material conditions
Niger : Les autorités doivent garantir les droits des détenus
Les droits de plusieurs détenus sont bafoués à la prison de Koutoukallè.
Amnesty
Africa
Health
Overcrowding
Les prisons du Niger sont surpeuplées et mélangent des délinquants violents avec des personnes condamnées pour des délits mineurs.
News
Africa
Overcrowding
Au Niger les maisons d’arrêt riment avec la surpopulation carcérale. Il y a davantage de prévenus que de condamnés alors que cela devrait être l’inverse. Et avec l’arrivée massive de plus d’un millier de membres présumés de Boko Haram dans les prisons nigériennes, la situation est préoccupante : il…
News
Africa
Women
Minors
Access to legal rights
Health
accused of demanding a ₦300,000 bribe to release a young mother and her eight-month-old baby, who have been illegally detained at the Suleja Prison, Niger
News
Africa
Drugs
Protest
Death penalty
Violence
Social ties
normalcy has already returned.We are doing our best in taking care of the inmates” Mr Kofar-Nassarawa said.
Daily nigerian
Niger
News
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
that the judiciary should be autonomous and financial independent but because they want to control judgments, they do not want it.“
Politics
Niger
News
Death penalty
Monday 9 April 2018 marks the opening of the first day of debates at the African Congress Against the Death Penalty. This year it will concentrate on Africa which is en route to becoming the next abolitionist continent.
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.
Africa: informal governance and healthcare access in prison
Analysis Opinion
Africa
Analysis
Discipline
Opinion
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Carole Berrih, a lawyer specialising in public law, focuses on the role of prisoners in the maintenance of order in N…
News
Africa
Thousands have been held in deplorable conditions.
Madagascar
Investigations
Africa
Investigations
programme in Niger with approximately 170 minors in prison in the six institutions where the two associations have a presence. With the same aims in mind
News
Death penalty
votaron a favor o se abstuvieron, hoy han votado en contra de la resolución, entre ellos Antigua y Barbuda, Dominica, Libia, Pakistán, Tonga y Uganda. Níger
News
Africa
Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.
News
Africa
Coronavirus
Health
Material conditions
Protest
The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 09…