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22 January 2021 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 After repeatedly defending Muslims' freedom of religion and belief, including demonstrating outside President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's residence, Tulkun Astanov has been jailed for five years. A state report accused him of following "sources of biased news such as Radio Free Europe", and publishing "unsubstantiated and exaggerated" information. Prisoner of conscience Astanov is being banned in jail from reading the Koran and praying the namaz. After repeatedly defending the freedom of religion and belief of Muslims, including demonstrating outside Presiden...

VUW Image Services Carwyn Jones and Jamie-Lee Tuuta, Tumuaki of Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa are co-presidents of the Māori Law Society. The protesters at Waikeria specifically referred to the failure of a recent strategy document to, as yet, have any real impact on the ground. RNZ reported one of the prisoners as saying "We hear about this Hōkai Rangi strategy but we don't see it. There is no programme. There is no rehabilitation. It's lock us up, put you in a yard full of gang members and then let you out. And they expect us to change."

Prisoner advocate Sir Kim Workman on how New Zealand's human rights record has taken a battering, and the Māori-led measures that are actually working. The six-day stand-off between prisoners in Waikeria’s top jail and prison management partially destroyed a building already targeted for demoliti

What does it say about the humanitarian condition of US prisons and jails when one of the United States’ closest allies refuses to extradite a person for fear that American prison conditions would drive him to suicide? This is exactly what happened on Monday when a British court ruled against the United States’ extradition request for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange due to concerns that his health and safety cannot be assured in US custody. The...

Egypt uses collective punishment against prison inmates, says HRW Watch towers at Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo 15 September 2020 [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images] December 18, 2020 at 12:34 pm The Egyptian authorities are using "collective punishment" against prisoners in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison, Anadolu has reported. The allegation was made by Human Rights Watch yesterday. A report from the rights watchdog said that the Egyptian security services have introduced changes to Scorpion Prison since mid-November which almost completely deprive the inmates of ventilatio...