Prisons

February 26, 2023

El Salvador begins transferring thousands to ‘mega prison’ amid gang crackdown

Reuters — El Salvador’s government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened “mega prison” on Friday, the…

October 16, 2022

CNN – At least eight people were injured in a fire at Evin prison in northern Tehran, Iranian state media…

September 24, 2021

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this…

September 17, 2021

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied the existence of human rights violations in Egypt as he announced that the country’s…

August 24, 2021

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of Iran’s prison system acknowledged Tuesday that videos purportedly obtained by a…

August 23, 2021

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The guard in a control room at Iran’s notorious Evin prison springs to attention…

July 16, 2021

Dozens of Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran, are currently designated as “red zones” as they battle a spike in COVID-19…

April 29, 2021

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s team said it was disbanding its network of regional campaign offices across Russia on Thursday…

March 10, 2021

On Tuesday, the Egyptian Interior Ministry denied the use of electrical torture inside Egypt’s prisons, in response to statements from…

February 12, 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account.…