Prison

US denounces arrest of former consulate employee in Russia
Robert Shonov is being held for allegedly cooperating ‘on a confidential basis’ with a foreign organisation.
Published On 16 May 2023
In Brazil, prisons without guards offer inmates path to recovery
Facilities run by a local non-profit focus on rehabilitation over punishment, in a method that has expanded worldwide.
Published On 16 May 2023
US Senate panel raises ‘concern’ over Egyptian detainee’s health
Senate Foreign Relations Committee urges Egypt to immediately release academic Salah Soltan amid ‘neglect in prison’.
Published On 11 May 2023
Arrests, hunger strikes, protests – the life of Khader Adnan
A timeline of major events in the life of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who died in Israeli detention.
Published On 2 May 2023

Israeli prison authorities said Adnan was found unconscious in his cell after nearly three months on hunger strike.

Mattohti Mattursun was one of 350 Uighur refugees, including children, who were detained in March 2014.

At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human pawns’.

The Guantanamo prison camp has come to symbolise the brutality of the US’s so-called ‘war on terror’.

Marked every year on April 17, the event is dedicated to the centrality of prisoners to the Palestinian cause.

The military did not specify whether those jailed for opposing its power grab in February 2021 would be freed.

Dubbed the ‘Facebook rapist’, Bester sentenced to life in prison in 2012, escaped in May 2022 after a suicide hoax.

Government has committed abuses such as torture, enforced disappearances in year-long gang crackdown, rights group says.

Some jail cells, the report says, are holding as many as 15 prisoners when they were designed for just three people.

Rusesabagina was released last Friday. President Kagame commuted his sentence after months of negotiation with the US.

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