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INDIA | 14-04-2015 | Dr, G N Saibaba, Delhi University Professor, who has been in incarceration since 9th May, 2014 has commenced an indefinite hunger strike from 11-04-2015 demanding proper medical treatment and food, both of which are being denied to him by the authorities of the Nagpur Central Prison. Dr. Saibaba, who is presently lodged in the notorious Anda Barrack ...

ATIK | 10-05-2014 | G.N Saibaba who was abducted on May 9 2014 by the State security forces ,  is a wellrespected and recognized activist and intellectual known for his struggle against the capitalist-imperialist system and their Indian representatives.  He has assumed many important tasks and played a integrative role in the struggles of the peoples ranging from Kashmir to Tamil ...

BUDAPEST | 01-05-2014 | On Wednesday the Council of Europe and many HR Organizations released a final report about the inhuman conditions in the prions in Hungary.  The Council of Europe says Hungary’s prison system needs to reduce overcrowding, stop discrimination against Roma prisoners and offer inmates work or recreational activities so they don’t spend 23 hours a day in their ...

BILBAO | 06-02-2014 | Basque Political Prisoner Arkaitz Bellon, 36, was found dead in the prison of Puerto de Santa Maria I, Cádiz, Southern Spain, on the afternoon of Wednesday 5th February. Despite different informations, at this time the reason of his decease has not been cleared. Arkaitz Bellon was serving a 13 years in sentence for sabotage, accused of ...

ISTANBUL | 14-01-2014 | Families continue to demand justice for their children who were jailed following Gezi protests that erupted and spread across the country last July. The Gezi Park protests sparked off on May 27 when a group of activists from Taksim Solidarity gathered in Istanbul’s Gezi Park after bulldozers came to the area to cut down trees. The ...

ISCWPP | 05-12-2013 | On December 2000 the security forces of the fascist Turkish state started a parallel bloody operation in 22 prison, resulting in the killing of 28 revolutionary prisoners.  The directive of this bloody operation was given by the coalition government at that time DSP, ANAP and MHP, during the operation hundreds of prisoners were injured. In prisons ...

INDIA| 12-11-2013 | The arrest of an Indian MP’s wife for allegedly torturing her maid to death and a recent report on global slavery has shed light on the need to protect the vulnerable. The abuse and exploitation of domestic workers in India continues to rise in the absence of a law to safeguard their rights. The surging demand for ...

Oakland – USA | 18 – 08 – 2013  | All eyes are on California, as prisoners across the state’s vast prison system hit their 38th day of hunger strike in protest of the torturous conditions of solitary confinement.  Prisoners’ loved ones and supporters joined 100 people on the steps of the state capitol Wednesday afternoon to demand swift and resolute ...

DİYARBAKIR | 18 – 08 – 2013 | The Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch has released its report on human rights violations in the the East and South East regions jails for the first 6 months of 2013. The report underlined the ill-treatment and torture practices are still very high and warned that death toll could climb due to ...

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, 2011. The Malatya specially authorized Third Court for Serious Crimes sentenced ...