Thursday, April 25, 2024

Topic: Prison

Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison, Hamas calls it “assassination”

Abdul Rahman al-Bahsh, a 23-year-old who was from Nablus in the occupied West Bank, had earlier on Monday been announced as the latest Palestinian prisoner to die.

6 Palestinian prisoners escape high-security Israeli prison by digging tunnel

6 Palestinians freed themselves from the Gilboa prison, which is one among Isreali Occupation’s high-profile prisons, on Monday at dawn. Four of the six prisoners were serving life sentences.

Innocent Prisoners; A first-hand experience with State, police and judiciary

Abdul Wahid Shaikh's 500 plus pages book published by Pharos publication, will be one of the most poignant contemporary prison literature, which has scanned and exposed the Indian state apparatus most blatantly.

One in three people globally imprisoned without trial: Report

One in three prisoners around the world is being held without having stood trial or been found guilty by any court, according to a new study published on Friday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Close Guantánamo camp: UN urges incoming US administration

Exactly 19 years after the Guantánamo Bay detention centre first opened, UN independent human rights experts on Monday urged the incoming United States administration of Joe Biden, to close the notorious military prison as soon as possible.

Only 7 states, 2 UTs record transgender prisoners separately from male/ female binary categorisation: Report

Out of all states and Union Territories in India, only 9 had recorded the data of transgender prisoners separately from the male/ female binary categorisation, according to a new report by the rights group Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI).