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Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Ngọc Bằng, director general of the Department of Criminal Verdict Implementation and Legal Aid, spoke to the newspaper Tuổi trẻ (Youth) about a proposal to allow reformed prisoners to re-unite with their families while serving their sentence.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed to learn that Do Cong Duong, a jailed independent journalist who had been extremely ill for months, died in detention last week, and calls on the international community to take action to ensure the survival of other journalists held in Vietnam’s prisons.
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Le Vietnam serait l’un des pays les plus fermés d’Asie, notamment sur ce qui se passe dans ses prisons. Un rapport d’Amnesty International dénonce des conditions de détention inhumaines : disparitions forcées, tortures, privations de soins médicaux. Les principales victimes sont des prisonniers d’o…
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La justice vietnamienne a condamné aujourd’hui une militante à 20 mois de prison pour trouble à l’ordre public après une manifestation en juin visant à protester contre la confiscation de terres par l’Etat, a indiqué son avocat.
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Trinh Ba Tu’s father was turned back this week after two unsuccessful trips to the prison last month.
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a minority of countries — China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Singapore — that continue to impose the death penalty for drug-related offences.According
Death penalty: global trends
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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.
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Women
One-fifth of Hong Kong’s prison population is female, the highest proportion of any major country in the world. Activists say local laws are stacked against women, in particular foreign women.
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trabajadoras migrantes que habían regresado al país desde Vietnam y otros 2 desde Qatar, tras haber sido víctimas de explotación a manos de tratantes de personas
France: a deceptive protection
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The proliferation of surveillance systems and an increased reliance on incarceration are meant to curb violence. But what are the implications of this kind of security? Françoise Vergès is a feminist, anti-racist author. Her most recent work, entitled Une théorie féministe de la violence. Pour une…
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Prisoners and advocates told the Guardian that some infected inmates are in isolation without medical care or adequate food, cut off from family and attorneys