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Israel
Thousands of Palestinians are currently deprived of their liberty by the Israeli authorities, a figure that has risen sharply in the last year. What is the current situation? Answers from the Palestinian association Addameer.
Burying the problems
Analysis
Inside Outside
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Mental health
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Seventh piece: mental health.
Women
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Iran
Varisheh Moradi, a political prisoner serving her sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, has begun a hunger strike to protest the death sentences handed to female activists in Iran. Moradi, imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin, started the hunger strike on Thursday.
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Iran
Three women political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin prison have gone on hunger and medicine strikes to protest their conditions and treatment.
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Israel
Israeli prison guards are taking photos and filming their abuse of Palestinian detainees, while the Israeli Prison Service says this is a ‘routine exercise’. Incarcerated Palestinian people have reported being subject to violence, kicking, punching blows to the testicles and other forms of severe a…
Crises
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Justice
Drugs
Death penalty
Iran
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has voiced deep concern over the recent spate of executions in Iran. According to reports, Iranian authorities have executed at least 29 people across the country in a short period, following 38 executions in July. This brings the reported numbe…
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Israel
Israeli authorities are systematically abusing Palestinians in torture camps, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault, B’Tselem said on Monday. In a new 118-page report, the Israeli rights group accused the government of conducting a policy of institutionalised abuse and torture again…
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Egypt
Six detainees have died in one week at a detention centre in the al-Sharqia governorate in Egypt, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) has reported. Egyptian rights group says detainees suffered from “suffocation” due to overcrowding and poor ventilation.
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Iran
The “No Execution Tuesdays” campaign, a prisoner-led initiative against capital punishment in Iran, has entered its 25th consecutive week. This Tuesday, prisoners in Ardabil and Qaimshahr prisons participated in the campaign, expanding its reach to 11 prisons in the country.
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Iran
For the past twenty days, prisoners in Ghezel (Qezel) Hesar Prison in Karaj have faced significant issues with accessing clean water. During this period, the inmates have only had access to safe drinking water for seven hours a day, putting their health at serious risk. The prison officials’ failur…
United Arab Emirates: dozens of people sentenced to life in prison in mass trial criticized abroad
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United Arab Emirates
A mass trial in the United Arab Emirates of dissidents that was widely criticized abroad has sentenced 43 people to life in prison, while others received other prison terms.
Crises
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Death penalty
Iran
For the past 19 weeks, prisoners across various Iranian prisons have been actively participating in a civil campaign against the death penalty.
In the campaign’s 19th week, eight political and religious prisoners from Ward 3 of Ghezelhesar Prison joined their ranks.
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Iran
The Iranian Bureau of Prisons is set to construct 70 new prisons and penitentiaries across the country, according to a new report by data analysis group Iran Open Data. More than 1.128 trillion Tomans (approximately $19.1 million) have been allocated for these projects.
Iran: spreading fear
Interview
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Violence
Iran
More than 800 people sentenced to death in Iran were executed in 2023. The authorities have resumed carrying out death sentences in public, using it to instil fear in the population. Interview with Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM).
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Health
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Iran
Taleghani Hospital in Tehran declared it can no longer accept dialysis patients from Evin Prison, citing contamination of its facilities with bedbugs.
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Israel
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers… At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
Surviving
Analysis
Inside Outside
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Material conditions
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Sixth piece: food
Crises
Middle East
Health
Material conditions
Iran
Detention, interrogation, and incarceration, even under the best and most standardized conditions, foster an environment conducive to contracting various diseases.
Intersection with poverty
Analysis
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Justice
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Fifth piece: Injustice.
Enough is enough
Analysis
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Overcrowding
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Fourth piece: overcrowding.