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Publication • August 3, 2016
Dignity of the Individual – Evaluation of Prisons in the OAC, CURE, 2007 Dignidad Dignidade Dignité ISBN. 978-1-892063-19-0 Dignity Artículo XXVTodo individuo que haya sido privado de su libertad tiene derecho a que el juez verifique sin demora la legalidad de la medida y a ser juzgado sin dilación injustificada, …
Prisoners in Chinese Labor Camps Send Pleas for Help in Exported Products by Joe Watson Chinese prisoners have used a novel, if not entirely secure, method of reporting human rights abuses, by stashing handwritten notes in the products they are forced to make inside prison sweatshops. Accounts of former prisoners …
Publication • July 29, 2016
Inalienable Rights – Applying International Human Rights Standards to the U.S. Criminal Justice System, AFSC, 2009 INALIENABLE RIGHTS Applying international human rights standards to the U.S. criminal justice system www.afsc.org AFSC New York Metropolitan Regional Office (NYMRO) Criminal Justice Program, Prison Watch Project 972 Broad Street, 6th Floor Newark, NJ …
Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …
Publication • June 2, 2016
ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - Study of the U.S. Expedited Removal Process - Report to U.S. DHS, UNHCR, 2003 (b)(6) (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), (b)(7)c (b)(6), …
Texas Executes Mexican National despite Unresolved Vienna Convention Claim by On January 22, 2014, Texas executed Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, for the 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis despite an unresolved claim of a Vienna Convention violation. As applied to Tamayo, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations required …
Doe et al v. Kerry et al, CA, Order Denying Mot for PI, IML international sex offender travel notice, 2016 Case 4:16-cv-00654-PJH Document 41 Filed 04/13/16 Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 United States …
UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi [1] May 22, 2015 was a milestone in the global movement for prisoners’ rights. On that day, the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
Publication • April 1, 2015
All the President's Psychologists: APA Complicitiy with CIA Torture, 2015 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S PSYCHOLOGISTS: The American Psychological Association’s Secret Complicity with the White House and US Intelligence Community in Support of the CIA’s ”Enhanced” Interrogation Program April 2015 Authors Lead authors: Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. Nathaniel Raymond Steven Reisner, Ph.D. Co­authors: …
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
The United States and Torture by William Blum The United States and Torture by William Blum Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the …
Article • November 21, 2014
UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement by Aviva Stahl UN Committee on Torture Questions U.S. Record on Solitary Confinement By Aviva Stahl Last Wednesday and Thursday, United States government officials met with representatives at the United Nations to discuss the country’s compliance with the United Nations …
Article • July 30, 2014
The Death Penalty in the United States and the Force of Regional Human Rights Law by Saira Mohamed The Death Penalty in the United States and the Force of Regional Human Rights Law by Saira Mohamed The botched execution last month of Oklahoma prisoner Clayton Lockett has focused attention on …
European Court of Human Rights Ruling Rebukes U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna European Court of Human Rights Ruling Rebukes U.S. Prison System by Derek Gilna A suspected terrorist diagnosed as mentally ill will not be extradited from Britain to the United States to face charges that he conspired to …
D.C. Circuit Clears Terrorism Suspect after 11-Year Ordeal by Derek Gilna An October 16, 2012 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ended the lengthy ordeal of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was originally captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, …
Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Torture re CDCR Solitary Confinement United Nations 2013 NATIONS UNIES UNITED NATIONS HAUT COMMISSARIAT DES NATIONS UNIES AUX DROITS DE L’HOMME OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEDURES SPECIALES DU CONSEIL DES DROITS DE L’HOMME SPECIAL PROCEDURES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Tenth Circuit: No Section 2241 Jurisdiction for BOP Supermax Challenge; Claims Must be Brought as Bivens Action by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 1, 2012 that a federal prisoner's transfer to supermax custody must be brought as a Bivens action rather than as a federal habeas …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
U.N. Considers Revisions to Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis The U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held its 22nd session in late April 2013. A significant item on the Commission’s agenda was the development of revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of …
Cerveka v. Czech Republic, ECHR, Comment, Olmstead Mandate Segregating Prisoners with Mental Illness, 2013
CIA Slammed for Torture Abuses at Secret Lithuanian Prisons by Derek Gilna Despite a lawsuit filed in the European Court of Human Rights by Saudi-born alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah, Lithuanian prosecutors have declined to pursue charges related to two CIA-operated prisons located in that country. Human rights groups Amnesty International …
Rumsfeld, Military Officials Immune from Suit by Foreign Nationals Alleging Torture on Foreign Soil by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On June 21, 2011, a divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of a district court that dismissed claims for damages and declaratory relief brought by nine foreign …
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