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Prisoners' rights in international law are found in a number of international treaties. For the most part these treaties came into existence following...

hunger-striking prisoners. However, the Israel Medical Association declared the legislation unethical and urged doctors to refuse to implement it. Prisoners are allowed...

Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP) was a prisoners' rights organisation set up in the early 1970s in the United Kingdom, which organised more...

International and the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, by 2017 an estimated 200,000 prisoners were incarcerated in camps that were dedicated...

a prisoner may not be ransomed for gold or silver, but may be exchanged for Muslim prisoners. The Qur'an explicitly allows Muslims to take prisoners during...

provides POWs such rights, and POWs in past wars—such as Japanese prisoners of war in World War II—have generally not been given these rights. The U.S. Supreme...

inmates or prison faculty. Physical abuse of prisoners includes illicit beating and hitting of prisoners, unlawful corporal punishment, stress positions...

Following the ruling it allowed prisoners to challenge infringements of other protected rights in the constitution. While prisoners continued to be subject to...

The protection of basic human rights is enshrined in Constitution of Malaysia. These include liberty of the person (Article 5) and prohibition of slavery...

[citation needed] Any of the following rights, given to prisoners, can be taken away for that purpose: Prisoner may refer to one of the following: A person...

for Human Rights (FIDH) reported that "Israel does not recognize Palestinian prisoners as having the status of prisoners of war." The prisoners are instead...

Both federal and state laws govern the rights of prisoners. Prisoners in the United States do not have full rights under the Constitution, however, they...

domain. "Paraguay Human Rights". Amnesty International. Retrieved December 30, 2012. "NGOs demand freedom for political prisoners on hunger strike and victims...

1991). "Prisoners Rights Union - A 20 Year Struggle" (PDF). The California Prisoner. So, in the winter of 1971, a group of 50 or so ex-prisoners and activists...

Rights highlighted the cases of Bahraini prisoners Hassan Mushaima, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, and Abduljalil al-Singace for its early 2021 human rights dialogue...

the prisoners attempted to visit Evin, but were forced to leave the premises by authorities. On August 4, 2010, family members of the 17 prisoners organized...

of prisoners themselves, with inmates directing gang activity from behind bars. There is ample violence in Bolivian prisons involving both prisoners and...

highlighted various issues that constitute ill-treatment of prisoners, such as remand prisoners being routinely held on lock-down for 19 hours per day, an...

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respectively that prisoners be allowed to vote. Pursuant to Section 62 Subsection 5 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, all convicted prisoners, detained...

Defense of Prisoners' Rights, also translated as Defending the Rights of Prisoners, is an Iranian NGO dedicated to defending the rights of prisoners in the...

corrections staff and prisoners, but also placed Muslim groups at the center of the prisoners' rights movement for obtaining constitutional rights on behalf of...

has held political prisoners, people whose detention is based substantially on political motives. Prominent US political prisoners have included anti-war...

over 70 Ukrainian Political Prisoners of War Russia: List of Individuals Recognized as Political Prisoners by the Human Rights Centre Memorial and Persecuted...

has won for his body." — Peter Benenson, "The Forgotten Prisoners". "The Forgotten Prisoners" is an article by Peter Benenson published in The Observer...

indoctrination. For much of history, prisoners of war would often be slaughtered or enslaved. Early Roman gladiators could be prisoners of war, categorised according...

As of November 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) conducted 159 interviews with prisoners of war held by the Russian and Russian-affiliated...

fellow inmates and guards. Prisoners have freedom of worship, and prison conditions are monitored by authorities and by human-rights organizations. There is...

18,185 prisoners. This is an example of severe overpopulation, as the prison is at 222% capacity, which results in little to no human rights for the...