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Detention and Imprisonment (203)
Apr 7 2020 4:23pm
Ethiopia: journalists and opposition politicians held in prison a week after charges dropped
The Ethiopian authorities must immediately release two journalists fro...
Mar 31 2020 2:53pm
Syria: COVID-19 'could spread quickly' in inhumane prisons
Former inmates told Amnesty they were held in cells with bodies of dec...
Mar 31 2020 10:23am
Russia: 'devastating consequences' if COVID-19 sweeps through prisons
Letter to Government agencies calls for reduction of prison population...
Mar 27 2020 4:44pm
Syria: Death by coronavirus - the latest fate awaiting Syrians
By Kristyan Benedict - @KreaseChan Coronavirus as reported by the S...
Mar 27 2020 12:36pm
Cambodia: overcrowded prisons are 'ticking time bomb'
Coronavirus could sweep through squalid prisons and drug ‘rehabilitati...
Mar 20 2020 6:30pm
Egypt: Call for release of at-risk prisoners amid coronavirus crisis
Prisoners already held in inhumane conditions in overcrowded jails ...
Nov 19 2019 2:18pm
The call that never came: how one Syrian torture survivor is refusing to let injustice crush him
Kristyan Benedict - @KreaseChan “Make sure my phone is always charg...
Aug 23 2019 1:45pm
Egypt: Urgent investigation needed after death in notorious Al-Aqrab prison
Egyptian authorities must urgently carry out an independent and impart...
Aug 15 2019 12:59pm
Urgent Action update: Iranian-swedish academic forcibly disappeared
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been subjected to enfor...
Aug 15 2019 11:55am
Urgent Action update: Jailed cancer patient tortured in prison
Critically ill prisoner of conscience and human right defender Arash S...