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Following a cabinet decision in the context of rising levels of crime last March, the government is on the verge of breaking its 24-year moratorium. 'The death penalty is a brutalising punishment...

'This man's plight highlights long-standing concerns about the Japanese prison system,' Amnesty International said. 'Everyone should be treated humanely, whatever crime they have committed.' Thirty...

'The USA must recognise the damage being done to its international reputation by its relentless and increasingly isolated use of this brutalizing punishment,' Amnesty International said today. The...

Representatives of the groups are currently in Turkey to research the operation conducted in 20 prisons in December 2000 and to investigate conditions at the new F-type prisons to which many of the...

'In light of the escalating violence and conflicting claims about who has carried out the killings, the government must exercise some control over this dire situation and initiate impartial and...

'This is a significant and most welcome development which sends a clear message that discriminatory practices against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights , particularly in rural...

Following an unfair trial , Moncef Marzouki was sentenced on 30 December 2000 to eight months' imprisonment for 'maintaining an unauthorized association' and four months for 'spreading false...

The CPS decision follows its previous ruling on 20 November, in which the CPS ruled out prosecuting the police officers who were reportedly involved in the death of Roger Sylvester after eight police...

Among those reported to have been ill-treated was Besnik Papa, arrested on 29 November and held at a police station in Tirana where, it is alleged, he was so severely beaten that he required hospital...

Recent days have seen a significant increase in the level of violence in the North African state, with dozens of members of security forces, state-armed militias and armed groups also killed. 'The...