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Download logoBurundian authorities should credibly investigate and provide a transparent and reliable account of the December 7, 2021, fire at Gitega’s

Burundian authorities should credibly investigate and provide a transparent and reliable account of the December 7, 2021, fire at Gitega’s central

The images are simultaneously striking and terrifying. A raging grassfire that is shooting flames into the sky and destroying nature around it and lapping perilously close to the fences around Central NSW’s Lithgow Correctional Centre. As local residents were evacuated and highways were closed to protect public safety when the fire raged out of control just before Christmas in 2019, 400 prisoners remained detained. By Julie Edwards

Officials are harassing an 18-year-old Muslim from Tashkent who wears the hijab. The family complained to the President and others about her being added to the Preventative Register. Police told neighbours that the authorities do not like her and warned them not to associate with her. Muslim men who have had their beards forcibly shaved have also been added to the Preventative Register. "Muslims are indignant that the state is attacking their beards and hijab, which is a very private matter...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on December 28 inaugurated a youth rehabilitation centre that can accommodate up to 1,400 juvenile offenders, with the first inmates arriving through transfer from other prisons. The centre is located in Barkou commune of Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district.

Just over five years ago, on Dec. 15, 2016, Soleiman Faqiri died after being held in solitary confinement for 11 days at the Central East Correctional Centre…

Following a series of riots which have left more than 280 inmates dead and hundreds injured in Ecuadorian prisons this year, UN independent human

In a joint statement, the experts said they were “appalled and gravely concerned” by repeated riots that have resulted in the death of so many prisoners, and the “clear risk” of further incidents.

In today’s increasingly globalised world, where news from every corner is available at a click, we are often exposed to a myriad issues facing humanity.

THE handling of deaths in custody in Scotland is in breach of European human rights laws, a group of experts have said.