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We, the undersigned national and international human rights organizations, urge the Department of Corrections to accelerate the lifting of restrictions on prison visits and correspondence that have been put in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Hamdi Hassan, elected as an MP three times between 2000 and 2012, died in his cell on Thursday, his son announced
Prisoner of conscience Shamil Khakimov was stopped from attending his only son's 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 regime's human rights obligations require this. Freedom of religion and belief and other human rights of prisoners of all faiths continues to be violated.
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 potentially disastrous impact of the pandemic on the prison population and prison staff in Thailand. ...
Ghislaine Maxwell's family say her prison conditions breach the Nelson Mandela Rules by subjecting her to 'cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment'. Maxwell, 59, is on remand on accusations of recruiting underage girls for billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019. Relatives say her treatment in a New York jail could violate the United Nation's agreement on caring for prisoners. A Twitter account run by her siblings, called 'Real Ghislaine', posted: 'Under the United Nations Standard Minimal Rules adopted in 2015 for the treatment of prisoners – ''The Nelson M...