Russia must end torture of detainees and prosecute the perpetrators, including prison guards caught on video beating an inmate, United Nations human rights investigators said. The U.N. Committee against Torture requested from Russian authorities to report back in a year on progress in holding to account guards who beat Yevgeny Makarov with truncheons and their…
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EU mobilises €25 million to defeat radicalisation in prisons
Attending the the Conference on Radicalisation in Prisons Commissioner Vera Jourová in charge of Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality put forward proposals to minimise the risk of terrorist attacks, tackling the “root of the problem” – the radical extremist political ideology, but the same time to distinguish it from Islam as religion. To help tackle #radicalisation at large @EU_Commission…
French prisons cells as hotel rooms?
This week announcement of the minister of justice Nicole Belloubet of telephone installations in each of the 50,000 cells in the 178 prisons in France, in a bid to slash the growing use of forbidden mobile phones and internet-connected smartphones, raises indignation among politicians. (Image: illustration) “Do you find it is normal, that when you rape, when…
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