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Afghanistan: prison chief laments conditions in country’s jails
In unusually frank comments on April 21, Afghanistan’s new prison chief Ahmad Rashid
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Women
Middle East
Torture
Des ex-détenues ont évoqué des actes de torture et les mauvais traitements infligés aussi à leurs familles
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Middle East
Activities
Rehabilitation
Work
Afghanistan: life in prison, looking to the future from behind bars
For many people, prison is only a place where criminals serve their sentence
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Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Afghanistan: life inside Kabul’s women’s prison during Covid-19
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country
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Women
When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would…
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Middle East
Access to legal rights
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Violence
Afghanistan : selon l’ONU, les tortures continuent dans les prisons
Selon un rapport onusien, plus d’un tiers des personnes détenues pour des
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Middle East
Health
Mental health
Afghanistan: Over 1,200 drug addicts being treated at Herat prison
The drug users are being treated by governmental institutions in cooperation
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Middle East
Justice
The leadership of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) released almost 285 detainees from the central prison of Kandahar province on Friday, based on the order of the IEA supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. These prisoners had been arrested on charges of criminal offenses and drug addictio…
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Thème
A survey of Afghan prisons this month by The New York Times concluded that at least 333 children are imprisoned with their mothers nationwide, according to interviews with officials at 33 of the country’s 34 provincial prisons.
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Middle East
Violence
Iran has carried out a mass execution of 12 inmates at a prison in the southeast part of the country, an NGO said on Tuesday, as concern grows over the rising number of executions in the Islamic republic
Ahmad // 2 // Along the way...
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Testimonial
Walls and borders.
Ahmad left Afghanistan on the 7th of November, 2015. His journey brought him to prison. This is his story.
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Middle East
Death penalty
of Torbat-a Jam, at Vakilabad prison, and five in Taybad prison, near Iran’s border with Afghanistan. These, like 88 percent of executions in Iran, weren’t
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Asia
Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain US citizens with no criminal charges.
Justice
Violence
Excessive wealth, poverty, corruption, impunity: these terms, so often repeated, become trivial and the ingredients which feed the most horrendous violence are still with us. Prison is the ultimate in marking one’s territory
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Coronavirus
Middle East
Health
at 2,336, although the real figure is believed to far higher.Cases linked to Iran have also been reported by Afghanistan, Canada, Lebanon, Pakistan, Kuwait
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North America
Dix-sept ans après son ouverture, le centre de détention américain situé sur l’île de Cuba existe toujours et abrite des prisonniers vieillissants à la santé précaire à cause des tortures qu’ils ont subies. Une enquête de la seule journaliste américaine, Carol Rosenberg, basée à Guantánamo depuis l…
Kwakya // 1 // Along the way...
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Testimonial
Walls and borders.
Kwakya, a Ghanaian refugee, fled his country four years ago. His journey brought him to prison. This is his story.
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Asia
From computer applications to English, inmates are learning and imparting new skills to each other at an institute opened recently on jail premises
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Africa
Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.
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Central America and the Caribbean
Overcrowding
países como Irán, Afganistán o Turquía redujeron su población penitenciaria hasta un 30%, aquí ha pasado lo contrario. Además, se han reducido los