The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out of jail | Indigenous Rights News

The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out of jail | Indigenous Rights News

Melbourne, Australia – More Indigenous people are behind bars in Australia than ever before, making them the world’s most imprisoned people. Despite making up 3.8 percent of the national population, Indigenous Australians make up 33 percent of the prison population and are 17 times more likely to be jailed than…

More than 100 inmates escape from Nigeria prison after heavy rains | Prison News

More than 100 inmates escape from Nigeria prison after heavy rains | Prison News

A manhunt is under way after a downpour destroyed the perimeter fence of the medium-security prison in the town of Suleja. More than 100 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria near the capital city of Abuja after overnight heavy rains destroyed parts of the facility, prison officials have…

Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: How many are still in Israeli detention? | Israel War on Gaza News

Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: How many are still in Israeli detention? | Israel War on Gaza News

Every year, April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, a day dedicated to the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Campaigners use the day to call for the human rights of such prisoners to be upheld and for those who have been detained without charge to be released. On Monday, Israel…

Why were Muslim prisoners in the US pepper-sprayed while praying? | Human Rights

Why were Muslim prisoners in the US pepper-sprayed while praying? | Human Rights

On February 28, 2021, just after 9pm, nine Muslim men removed their shoes, lined up in single file, and knelt quietly for Isha, their faith’s mandatory night prayer, inside a Missouri state prison in the small city of Bonne Terre. Their action was neither unusual nor provocative. The men had…

Navalny’s mother says Russian authorities pressuring ‘secret’ burial | Human Rights News

Navalny’s mother says Russian authorities pressuring ‘secret’ burial | Human Rights News

Lyudmila Navalnaya says investigators are trying to set conditions on where, when and how the prominent Kremlin critic should be buried. The mother of Alexey Navalny has said Russian authorities are pressing her to bury the opposition leader’s body in “secret”. Speaking in a video message posted on YouTube on…

‘Systematic torture’: To be Palestinian in an Israeli prison | Israel War on Gaza News

‘Systematic torture’: To be Palestinian in an Israeli prison | Israel War on Gaza News

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Palestinian organisations are documenting abuses by Israel and its forces in hopes that one day it will be held accountable. Among them is the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), which works to support Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Abdullah al-Zaghari, head of PPS, told Al Jazeera there…

Russia’s Putin will not go unpunished for Navalny’s death, wife Yulia says | Vladimir Putin News

Russia’s Putin will not go unpunished for Navalny’s death, wife Yulia says | Vladimir Putin News

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his associates will not go “unpunished” if the death of Alexey Navalny, as reported by Russian officials, turns out to be true, the Kremlin critic’s wife Yulia has said. Russia’s prison agency earlier said Navalny died on Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he…

Alexey Navalny timeline: From poisoning to prison to death | Politics News

Alexey Navalny timeline: From poisoning to prison to death | Politics News

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has died on Friday in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said. Navalny lost consciousness after a walk and could not be revived by medics, the prison service explained. Here are some of the key events in…

Norway court says mass killer Breivik’s prison isolation not ‘inhumane’ | Prison News

Norway court says mass killer Breivik’s prison isolation not ‘inhumane’ | Prison News

Serving a prison sentence for killing 77 people in 2011, Breivik has access to a kitchen, fitness room and TV with Xbox. Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will remain in isolation in prison after he lost his legal attempt to end the conditions imposed on him by the state….