After Uganda, Rwanda becomes the second African country to welcome Afghan refugees. – The only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan is moving its entire establishment of 250 people to settle in Rwanda, official sources said on Tuesday. The news was first announced through a tweet from Shabana Basij-Rasikh, president and co-founder of the Afghanistan … Read more
Photo: Unsplash A ranking of countries by the number of prisoners has been compiled – – In the city-state in Italy on the territory of the Vatican Rome, which is the seat of the Pope, there is not a single prisoner. Representatives of the Istanbul Academy of Criminal Law analyzed statistics on the number of … Read more
According to the sources of the publication, the prisoners are 30-year-old Isak Dewit and 24-year-old Haned Mohamed Abdullahi, who were sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder in 2016 and 2019. Abdullahi awaits deportation after serving his sentence. The police announced a special operation with the involvement of additional resources and special units. A … Read more
Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) wants prison staff to be vaccinated against the corona virus as a priority. The unions already submitted a strike notice earlier Friday to obtain it. The issue will be discussed on Monday at the inter-ministerial consultation between the Ministers of Health. – The wardens’ unions submitted a … Read more
What remedies do detainees have when they are incarcerated in undignified conditions? According to the Minister of Justice, 849 of them sleep on a mattress on the ground. In October 2020, the Constitutional Council censured an article of the Code of Criminal Procedure which hampered the appeals of people placed in pre-trial detention in degrading … Read more
Iranian authorities sentenced Emad Sharghi, an Iranian-American businessman, to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. This is reported by the TV channel with reference to a friend of the convict’s relatives. NBC News. According to a family friend, Mr. Shargi was summoned to court on November 30 last year, where he was immediately … Read more
Justice has immediately denied a jailer access to the prison. The reason is a warning from the security forces that the man is a “potentially dangerous extremist” with the intention “to use force.” Justice has already warned several times this year for the growing threat from the extreme right corner. – The person concerned has … Read more
When the virus enters the walls of a prison, it is very difficult to get rid of it, does not hide Wilfried Fonck, national secretary of the union of prison guards Ufap-Unsa. In recent days, the administration penitentiary identified 431 positive cases among staff (against 287 a week earlier) and 171 among detainees (117 a … Read more
The Brussels prisons were startled on Friday evening by a helicopter that hovered over the prison in Vorst, among other things. It would be an escape attempt with a hijacked helicopter, but the attempt was unsuccessful. – Three people hijacked a helicopter with a female pilot in Deurne. The three armed men summoned the pilot … Read more
JN / Agencies Today at 15:08– The husband of a Iranian-British detainee in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been notified of a new charge, pleads with the British authorities to “do everything to protect her”, starting by attending her trial on Sunday. “It is important for the British Government to do everything to protect it,” … Read more