Tag: detainees
Bahrain: nearly 800 detainees on hunger strike for better conditions of detention
For more than two weeks now, several hundred detainees in Bahrain have started a hunger strike. The country has one main prison, that of Jau. And now, nearly 800 detainees…
Guantanamo judge rejects detainee’s confession obtained under torture
A US military magistrate ruled on Friday August 18 that the confessions of a man suspected of being linked to an al-Qaeda attack could not be used as evidence because…
Nieuwersluis women’s prison management in conversation with detainees about abuses
The spokesman for the management says he understands that it seems that a meeting was organized soon after the documentary Sit and Shut Up by Jessica Villerius came online yesterday.…
Release of two French detainees in Iran
Frenchman Benjamin Brière and Franco-Irishman Bernard Phelan, who were detained in Mashhad prison in northeastern Iran, have been released, we learned from the French Foreign Ministry on Friday. Benjamin Briere37,…
The number of detainees in French prisons reaches a new record
73,080: the number of detainees in French prisons on April 1. This is the third month in a row where the number of detainees is on the rise in French…
detainees protest against their conditions of detention
It has been nearly a month now that a protest movement has affected the central prison of Bahrain. At the Jau penitentiary center, in the south of the country, around…
Prisons: two thirds of released detainees have psychiatric disorders
News Published on 12/18/2022 at 7:03 p.m. Updated 12/18/2022 at 7:03 p.m. Reading 2 mins. in collaboration with Dr. Joachim Müllner (Psychiatrist) Medical validation: December 19, 2022 Many ex-prisoners present…
Michael P.’s mother wants to help detainees’ loved ones with the foundation
P.’s mother, together with other family members, is imprisoned in the Support and Advice Centers Foundation for Relatives, the AD writes. The foundation could help family and friends of offenders…
Hear the neighbor tell about the loud bangs from one of the detainees’ apartment in Vetlanda
– There were very loud thuds. It sounded like 50 to 100 kilos landed on the floor several times, says the neighbor who wishes to remain anonymous. Two women are…
families of European detainees in Iran appeal to the European Union
It is a desperate appeal to Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy. Several families of European detainees in Iran are calling on the European Union to act to free…