Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan dies in Israeli prison | Israel-Palestine conflict News
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Israeli prison authorities said Adnan was found unconscious in his cell after almost three months on hunger
Read more
Prison
Uighur refugee dies after nine years in detention in Thailand | Uighur News
Mattohti Mattursun was one of 350 Uighur refugees, including children, who were detained in March 2014. An ethnic Uighur man
Read more
US envoy to UN urges Russian foreign minister to free detainees | Politics News
At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human
Read more
Guantanamo Bay prisoners show signs of ‘accelerated ageing’: ICRC | Human Rights News
The Guantanamo prison camp has come to symbolise the brutality of the US’s so-called ‘war on terror’. Prisoners who have
Read more
What is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day? | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is commemorated every year on April 17 – a date approved by the Palestinian National Council in
Read more
Myanmar military pardons more than 3,000 prisoners for New Year | Prison News
The military did not specify whether those jailed for opposing its power grab in February 2021 would be freed. Myanmar’s
Read more
South Africa extradites prison break fugitive from Tanzania | Prison News
Dubbed the ‘Facebook rapist’, Bester sentenced to life in prison in 2012, escaped in May 2022 after a suicide hoax.
Read more
El Salvador committing ‘systematic’ abuses in gang purge: Amnesty | Human Rights News
Government has committed abuses such as torture, enforced disappearances in year-long gang crackdown, rights group says. Authorities in El Salvador
Read more
HRW report on Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons highlights abuses | Prison News
Islamabad, Pakistan – A prominent rights group has raised alarm over Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons and called for reforms to the
Read more
Freed ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero heads to US for family reunion | Prison News
Rusesabagina was released last Friday after President Kagame commuted his sentence, following months of negotiations between Washington and Kigali. The
Read more