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August 20, 2020

Continued severe COVID-19 regime restrictions 'risk psychological decline in prisoners'

Severe restrictions in prisons at times amount to solitary confinement and have created a real risk of psychological decline among prisoners, which needs to be addressed urgently, says the Prison Inspectorate.
May 28, 2020

COVID-19 prisoner releases too few, too slow, says Human Rights Watch

Detainees are often at heightened risk of COVID-19 due to close proximity, inability to practice social distancing, a lack of adequate sanitation and hygiene, a high incidence of underlying medical conditions, and lack of adequate medical care.
April 19, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s mass trial of Jordanians and Palestinians raises serious concerns

After holding some of the detainees for nearly two years without charge, Saudi authorities began a mass trial behind closed doors on 8 March 2020 at the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh.
March 16, 2020

Inspection of Border Force detention finds improvement but some serious concerns

A new inspection report says Border Force should ensure that children, injured detainees and those held in vehicles are treated safely, decently and in accordance with the law.
February 25, 2020

Yemeni activist Huda al-Sarari wins global human rights award

Huda al-Sarari helped to establish the Union of Mothers of Abductees in Aden and has secured the release of more than 260 detainees.
January 20, 2020

Psychologists who created CIA torture techniques to testify at Guantánamo

Two contract psychologists are to testify at Guantánamo for first time.
October 2, 2019

Release of 290 detainees in Yemen facilitated by Red Cross

The unilateral release of 290 detainees, including 42 survivors of an attack on a place of detention in Dhamar this month, took place on 30 September 2019.
August 10, 2019

Immigration removal flight to Nigeria and Ghana inspection report

Inspectors find that despite repeated recommendations, some standards of common decency were not met, such as allowing detainees to go to the toilet in private.
July 12, 2019

UN experts say Iran is denying treatment to detainees with life-threatening conditions

UN human rights experts have expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls.
June 19, 2019

MPs urge Jeremy Hunt to press Bahrain to end 'punitive measures' against female detainees

Sixteen cross-party MPs and Peers have delivered a letter to the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to press the Bahraini government to end the abuse of female political prisoners.

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