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Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin has rejected recent statements by Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) president Rong Chhun criticising Cambodia’s courts.

UN made “urgent appeals” to the Nigerian government on Nnamdi Kanu.

Prisoner of conscience Shamil Khakimov was stopped from attending his only sons funeral in September, and has not been hospitalised for the specialised medical treatment he needs. This is despite multiple reminders – the most recent on 13 September – from the UN Human Rights Committee that the regimes human rights obligations require this. Freedom of religion and belief and other human rights of prisoners of all faiths continues to be violated.

JOINT OPEN LETTER October 1, 2021 Your highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, As the Expo Dubai 2020 opens for six months starting on 1 October…

Prisoners, especially women and girls, should also be given priority because they are not an exception to the pandemic

Despite recent verdicts which affirm their rights, trans people in Indian prisons face repeatedly have their rights and privacy violated and their identities disregarded.

Rights groups from the region and around the world call on Emirati authorities to release all imprisoned human rights defenders and activists detained in violation of their right to free expression.

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Joint letter on prison conditions and COVID-19 19/07/2021 Bangkok, Thailand Dear Mr. Somsak, We, the undersigned national and international human rights organizations, reiterate our calls for the Ministry of Justice to take urgent measures to address ongoing overcrowding and the COVID-19 crisis in prisons across the country. In mid-April of 2020, during the early stages of the pandemic, we sent a joint letter to the Department of Corrections in which we expressed our gravest concern over the p...

Source: United Nations MIL OSI 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).  Released ahead of Nelson Mandela International Day, celebrating perhaps the best known political prisoner of all time, the first global research data on prisons released by the UN, examines the long-term trends of incarceration.  A shock...