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Algerian prisons seek to educate
Author: Jean
Published: 17 May 2012
ANSAmed reports on the strategies of the Algerian Penitentiary Administration in seeking to educate its youthful detainees.
ACJR News Algeria News
New Legal Aid Law in Sierra Leone
Author: Jean
Published: 12 May 2012
Sierra Leone’s parliament has just enacted a legal aid law which provides for the role of paralegals.
Legal Aid News Sierra Leone
Malik Medjnoune finally released
Author: Jean
Published: 05 May 2012
Malik Medjnoune was held for 12 years in pre-trial detention until international pressure from Amensty International and Alkarama, an Arab human rights organisation, forced a one-day "trial" in July 2011. He was released in May 2012, having served the full 12 years of the sentence handed down.
ACJR News Algeria News
Rwandan Mpanga International Prison commended
Author: Jean
Published: 05 May 2012
Employees of the US Embassy in Kigali have commended the Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) for promoting better and safer environment for inmates of this prison.
News Rwanda
Three detainees die in Misrata; UN Mission expresses concern at suspected torture
Author: Jean
Published: 03 May 2012
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed concern to Libya's authorities over the deaths of three people in a detention centre in the north-western city of Misrata on 13 April 2012, saying it believes that the deaths were the result of torture. Most detainees are alleged Gadaffi sympathizers. Meanwhile, the Libyan authorities pass a number of new laws criminalizing opposition to the revolution.
News Libya
Civil debt detainee dies in police detention in Liberia
Author: Jean
Published: 02 May 2012
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 like a private home.
Liberia News