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10 000 Eritrean political prisoners 20 years after independence, says Amnesty
Amnesty International said in a report released on 9 May 2013 that Eritrea's prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever ...
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A decade awaiting trial draws to a close for South African treason trialists
Du Toit brothers arrested in 2002, found guilty in 2012.
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Amnesty releases report alleging torture by Rwandan military
On 8 October 2012 Amnesty International released a report entitled "Shrouded in Secrecy: Illegal Detention and torture by Military Intelligence". The report ...
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Cape Town man beaten to death in police cells
A 48-year-old man arrested for being drunk in public was beaten to death in a Durbanville, Cape Town, police cell in the early hours of Saturday 21 April 2012.
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Challenging disadvantage in Zambia: Groundbreaking report released
A groundbreaking report providing an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by people with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities in Zambia's ...
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Chief Justice of Lagos State frees 233 pretrial detainees
Justice Ayotunde Phillips said it is her statutory duty to reduce overcrowding.
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Chief Justice of Nigeria criticises use of holding charges
Top judge condemns the practice of filing holding charges against accused persons and “trial by public parade of suspects on pages of newspapers and on the ...
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Civil debt detainee dies in police detention in Liberia
Family of the dead detainee demand a probe into his death amid allegations that Police Commander Harry Bai runs the police station in which the death occurred ...
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Commission finds pretrial and post-sentence injustices
National Commission on Human Rights submits worrying report on prisons to Rwandan Parliament.
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CSPRI hosts a round table on South Africa's Remand Detention White Paper
The Chief Deputy Commissioner for Remand in the Department of Correctional Services, Ms Britta Rotmann, explained the thinking behind the final draft white ...
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