Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Prisoner 345
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Behind The Walls

Two Justice Systems: Contrasting Approaches to Prison Management in the UK and the Netherlands

Unlike the UK, where prisons are bursting at the seams, the Dutch government is actively closing facilities that are no longer necessary.

Published on: 23 October, 2024

Senegal’s political detainees

Detainees include opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his chosen election candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

Published on: 12 March, 2024

Huhman rights in North Korea

Salmón, who was appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2022, will present her report to the General Assembly in October this year.

Published on: 12 September, 2023

“Read Your Way Out”

The programme is called “Read Your Way Out”, and has been cautiously welcomed by human rights activists, following years of violence in the so-called war ..

Published on: 26 March, 2023

HRW on Bhutan’s prisoners

Published on: 14 March, 2023

lawyer Hammouri to be deported to France

Hammouri has been imprisoned several times previously by Israel, including a seven-year sentence between 2005 and 2011, and 13 months in administrative detention in 2017.

Published on: 4 December, 2022

‘Hotel Rwanda’ & Paul Rusesabagina’s trial

Rusesabagina, a businessman whose role in saving more than 1,000 lives during the 1994 genocide inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, was sentenced to 25 years ..

Published on: 6 April, 2022

Sami Alhaj Guantánamo Memoir/3/

“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.”

Published on: 17 January, 2021

Sami Alhaj Guantánamo Memoir/2/

My hunger strike coincided with the first week of January 2007.

Published on: 13 January, 2021

Sami Alhaj Guantánamo Memoir/1/

They robbed me of my best days, my best weeks, the best months, and years of my life without any sense of guilt. But I ..

Published on: 11 January, 2021

Still a Black Hole: Guantánamo Bay 19 years on Still a Black Hole: Guantánamo Bay 19 years on/ Clive Stafford Smith

The prison comes with a long history, and it has always been about avoiding the rule of law. If you walk into the UK parliament ..

Published on: 11 January, 2021

The Experience of Facing Imminent Execution by Shakib Wali / Orlando Hall (scheduled for execution November 19)

Orlando Hall found his way to redemption through his Islamic faith. He wrote an OpEd on why he became a Muslim and what this says ..

Published on: 12 November, 2020