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Afghanistan : des manifestants décrivent les abus des talibans
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Narratives of mass incarceration around the globe
Dr. Dreisinger is the founder of the Incarceration Nations Network (INN), an international community that works to support, instigate and popularize prison reform efforts around the world. Prison Insider met her in Lyon during a joint screening of the docuseries. We asked her three questions in a v…
Iran: prisoners deprived of all rights
The recent events in Iran are leading to a considerable increase in the number of arrests and people detained. What are the rights of Iranian prisoners? Prison Insider is looking for information on the conditions of detention in Iranian prisons. Ehsan Hosseinzadeh, an Iranian lawyer and political r…
DRC: psychologically, I am no longer human’ – life after 20 years on death row
On January 16, 2001, the Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was murdered. Under pressure to find the culprits, the police arrested members of his personal guard. Lieutenant Richard Yav was among them. Richard was tortured and sentenced to death for a crime he never committ…
Argentina: debaten habeas corpus en audiencia tras denuncia de irregularidades en la cárcel de Mujeres
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Argentina: agravamiento de las condiciones de detención en la Unidad 32 de Florencio Varela
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Pakistan: submerged and forgotten
Pakistan experienced torrential rains between June and September 2022. The floods submerged a third of the country. What about prisons? Zainab Mahboob and Fakhra Irshad from Justice Project Pakistan shared with us what they know about the current situation. Interview.Iran : quatre morts dans des affrontements et un incendie au cœur de la prison d’Evin
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Russia: las autoridades penitenciarias imponen duras condiciones a Alexei Navalny
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Ecuador: seis presos heridos deja un motín en cárcel
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Cuba : las dramáticas condiciones de detención en las que está José Daniel Ferrer
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Suisse : à Genève, la grève des gardiens de prison fâche les familles de détenus
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Équateur : onze blessés lors de nouveaux "affrontements" dans une prison
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DRC: "psychologically, I am no longer human’ – life after 20 years on death row"
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"Abolishing the death penalty is a universal fight”
The fight to end capital punishment is far from over but progress continues to be made. Over a thousand attendees are expected to converge on the German capital in November 2022 for the 8th World Congress against the Death Penalty. The assembly aims to unite individuals around the global issue of a…