Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

July 2, 2019

Democratic Republic of Congo: Kinshasa, la prison centrale de Makala en pleine modernisation

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Africa Congo - Kinshasa

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July 2, 2019

Democratic Republic of Congo: la prison de Kananga évacuée le temps des travaux de réhabilitation

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Africa Congo - Kinshasa

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July 1, 2019

Ghana: Name and shame in your reports, Amnesty International told

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Africa Ghana

Mr Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, the executive director of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), has asked Amnesty International to add naming and shaming component to its report on prison conditions. He said this would awaken agencies and individual that have shirked their responsibilities of insuring improved…

June 30, 2019

Egypt: ‘Hospitals are for the dying’, medical negligence inside Egyptian prisons

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Africa Middle East Egypt

Inside his prison cell, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh’s health has severely deteriorated. The issue is not a new one. For years, local and international rights groups have repeatedly warned that conditions in Egypt’s prisons — especially access to health care — fell far below acceptable standards.

June 27, 2019

Gabon: des détenus parmi les candidats au baccalauréat

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Africa Gabon

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June 26, 2019

Sudan: Bashir’s regime protest prison conditions

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Africa Material conditions Sudan

Members of the regime of ousted president Omar Bashir who have been jailed in the Koper Prison in Khartoum since their removal from power in April, are protesting against their prison conditions.

June 24, 2019

Chad: un mort et cinq blessés dans une tentative d'évasion

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Africa Protest Violence Chad

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June 18, 2019

Zimbabwe: prisons under siege as Zimbabwe’s economic woes persist

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Africa Zimbabwe

The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare is crumbling at the seams, assailed by overcrowding and a critical shortage of medicines, food and other basics as the economically-crippled country battles to care for its inmates.

June 16, 2019

Côte d'Ivoire: le taux de surpopulation carcérale atteint les 266%

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Africa Overcrowding Côte d’Ivoire

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June 14, 2019

Mauritanie: un rapport sur la peine de mort apporte un éclairage sur les limites de la justice dans ce pays

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Africa Death penalty Violence Mauritania

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June 7, 2019

Libya: l'ONU dénonce les conditions de détention «épouvantables» des migrants

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Africa Material conditions Libya

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May 27, 2019

Ethiopie: l'ancien directeur d'une prison arrêté pour torture

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Africa Torture Ethiopia

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May 20, 2019

Kenya: mothers in prison deserve better conditions to bring up children

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Africa Material conditions Social ties Kenya

The Kenya Prisons Service has allowed children under four years to accompany their mothers to prison, where they are accorded relatively proper care.

May 9, 2019

DRC: insufficient health care at Makala Prison

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Africa Health Overcrowding Congo - Kinshasa

“We are sick, but since there is no doctor to see us, we have no access to any medicine.”

May 9, 2019

Death penalty: global trends

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Africa North America 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.

May 4, 2019

Nigeria: prison inmates seek better library facility

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Africa Nigeria

Inmates at the Makurdi Medium Prison, have appealed to the state and federal authorities to equip the prison library with relevant books and journals to enable them to develop themselves educationally.

May 4, 2019

Ghana: local company donates electrical cables to Kumasi Prison

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Africa Ghana

A local manufacturer of electrical cables, Tropical Cable and Conductors Limited, has donated assorted electrical cables to the Kumasi Central Prison.

April 29, 2019

Nigeria: children and women raped and abused in prison

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Africa Women Nigeria

Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison.

April 23, 2019

Nigeria: stringent bail conditions responsible for prison congestion

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Africa Material conditions Nigeria

Some lawyers in Lagos on Tuesday attributed prison congestion in the country to the inability of defendants to perfect stringent bail conditions.

April 18, 2019

Swaziland: “a day in prison feels like many”

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Africa Eswatini

As a 27-years-old political activist fighting for democracy, B. was arrested, beaten, tortured and imprisoned. He tells his story.

April 16, 2019

Ghana: dans les prisons à ciel ouvert pour "sorcières"

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Africa Ghana

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April 16, 2019

Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang lance le processus pour abolir la peine de mort

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Africa Death penalty Violence Guinea

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April 15, 2019

Zimbabwe: call to commit all women inmates to open prison

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Africa Women Facilities Zimbabwe

THE Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Services (ZPCS) has called on government to commit all women inmates to the open prison system. ZPCS’s assistant commissioner, Christmas Tarwira said this development will greatly assist mothers incarcerated and living with their minors. “We want the government to b…

March 29, 2019

Mauritania: la esclavitud pervive en Mauritania

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Africa Mauritania

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