• Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (center) holds hands with Palestinian prisoners who were among the first group to be released from Israeli prisons in August. (rferl.org)
  • The new law prohibits the release of Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences in Israeli prisons. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • This law applies to individuals incarcerated from November 2014 onward, and does not apply to prisoners currently in Israeli prisons, who may still be released in negotiations. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Prisons see rates of mental health problems that are many times higher than the general population, and high levels are often recorded of personal distress, aggression, antisocial behaviour and drug and alcohol abuse among prisoners. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But what we do see are indications that this relatively cheap, simple option might have multiple benefits for prisoners' wellbeing and possibly aid in managing the burden of mental health problems in prisons. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Recent news reports have confirmed the extra judicial torture and subsequent murder of 19 of more than 250 illegally held Armenian prisoners of war and civilian non-combatants by the government of Azerbaijan within its state-run prisons and rendition sites. (change.org)
  • Asuncion, 15 January 2014 - The troubling situation of prisons in Paraguay was the issue that led a multisectoral group to meet for the first time last week, in order to discuss and exchange ideas that can guide the development of a National Plan of integral assistance to prisoners. (unodc.org)
  • According to the latest available data, there are 9,400 prisoners in Paraguay, distributed in 17 prisons in poor conditions due to overcrowding, lack of medical care and psychological treatment that, in addition to the high consumption of drugs and alcohol, are factors that influence the difficult task of rehabilitation and reintegration into society. (unodc.org)
  • To achieve this highly desirable objective, a lot of work is needed to identify all the political prisoners in the prisons of India (or on bail). (countercurrents.org)
  • commonplace in many Cambodian prisons and many prisoners were not tried. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Much of our information about what goes on in occupied Tibet's prisons comes from former detainees and prisoners, who have since fled Tibet and reached the outside world. (freetibet.org)
  • I am committed to speaking to people in the outside world on behalf of my fellow Tibetan political prisoners who are in Chinese prisons. (freetibet.org)
  • Former political prisoners say transferring inmates to prisons such as Tharyarwaddy, where they have little access to family members and are subjected to poor treatment, is a tactic the junta uses to punish them for their activism and break their spirit. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Mar Kee said political prisoners who staff at other prisons had singled out as "troublemakers" were immediately subjected to physical abuse upon their arrival at Tharyarwaddy, and often placed in solitary confinement. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Former political prisoner Win Zaw Naing told RFA that the junta is following the playbook of Myanmar's previous military regime in dealing with prisoners of conscience by sending them to Thayarwaddy and prisons in remote locations, where they have less access to family members and are forced to endure harsh conditions. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The pace of prisoner transfers has picked up since U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the appointment of Paul Lewis as a special envoy tasked with closing Guantanamo Bay prisons and restarted the "Periodic Review Board" process in October. (courthousenews.com)
  • Ukrainian state-backed project, "I Want to Live", says it plans to start exchanging Russian prisoners of war (POWs) for anti-war political prisoners jailed in Russia, reports Federico Fuentes . (greenleft.org.au)
  • Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) ride atop of an infantry fighting vehicle after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2023. (zawya.com)
  • Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin with the body of a person who is considered to be former U.S. Army soldier Nicholas Maimer, killed in the frontline town of Bakhmut, after prisoners of war (POWs) swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2023. (zawya.com)
  • Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are seen atop and next to an infantry fighting vehicle after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2023. (zawya.com)
  • The government of Azerbaijan and its armed forces, to this day, refuse to release all Armenian Prisoners of War (POWs) and civilians in their custody, in direct violation of the tripartite peace agreement of November 10, 2020, explicitly stipulating their release. (change.org)
  • Russia said a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war, or POWs, would soon be sent to the front lines to fight against their own country, state media reported. (businessinsider.com)
  • The researchers found that prisoners after a ten-week yoga course reported improved mood, reduced stress and were better at a task related to behavior control than those who continued in their normal prison routine. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Sam Settle, director of the Prison Phoenix Trust, says: 'Almost half of adult prisoners return to prison within a year, having created more victims of crime, so finding ways to offset the damaging effects of prison life is essential for us as a society. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This research confirms what prisoners have been consistently telling the Prison Phoenix Trust for 25 years: yoga and meditation help them feel better, make better decisions and develop the capacity to think before acting -- all essential in leading positive, crime-free lives once back in the community. (sciencedaily.com)
  • One example of this is Tacumbú, a prison in Asunción, which has a capacity to hold 2,500 prisoners. (unodc.org)
  • Aug. 28, 2023 is a Monday, and on Mondays the political prisoners in the women's wing of Tehran's Evin Prison are allowed to make phone calls. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Reacting to strong pressure, the government transferred him and six other political prisoners to Pollsmoor Prison. (counterpunch.org)
  • Four years after she was freed from Iranian prison Roxana Saberi calls for her fellow prisoners be released as prisoners of conscience. (thedailybeast.com)
  • With 20-year prison terms, the Yaran are serving the longest sentences of all current prisoners of conscience in Iran. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Mahvash and Fariba are now back in Evin Prison, living with other women political prisoners. (thedailybeast.com)
  • But racial profiling, institutional racism, and continued segregation in schools and elsewhere, have led to the construction of the largest prison system in the world, built to house people of color, who now comprise 75% of its prisoners. (counterpunch.org)
  • The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition has received reports that prison officials have been attempting to freeze out strikers held in the Ad-Seg Unit at Pelican Bay, using the air conditioning system in conjunction with cold weather conditions where the prison is located. (indybay.org)
  • We are at a point were we are calling on the media to make inquiries on prison protocol if and when prisoners begin to die. (indybay.org)
  • Cut off from the world, Tibetan prisoners are at grave risk of torture and being killed in prison. (freetibet.org)
  • Free Tibet has recorded instances of prisoners being beaten by guards, denied food and being forced to drink their water from the prison latrines. (freetibet.org)
  • By RFA Burmese 2022.10.04 -- Authorities under the junta's Ministry of Home Affairs have transferred dozens of political prisoners from Myanmar's Insein Prison in Yangon to a facility infamous for its poor treatment of inmates, RFA has learned, prompting concern from family members for their well-being. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Prison Department authorities transferred the estimated 250 political prisoners to western Bago region's Tharyarwaddy Prison - where former inmates have reported being subjected to torture and other forms of abuse - on Sept. 24, relatives told RFA Burmese, adding that they were never informed of the move. (globalsecurity.org)
  • A family member of journalist and political prisoner Nyein Nyein Aye, who was among those transferred to Tharyarwaddy last month, said they were worried about her safety and status at the new prison. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In July, authorities transferred more than 60 political prisoners to Tharyarwaddy from Hpa-An Prison in Kayin state. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Mar Kee, a former student activist and prisoner of conscience who served time in Tharyarwaddy Prison during the 1980s told RFA that it is one of Myanmar's worst detention centers. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The report, based on the practice of care given to a group, totalizing fourteen meetings and was composed of eleven prisoners during the second semester of 2004, also considers the exchange of experiences with coworkers, members of the group Minds without barriers/prison bars . (bvsalud.org)
  • This campaign should also take up more enduring issues relating to minimizing the possibilities of political imprisonment in future, as well as for protecting the rights of political prisoners and for improving their conditions. (countercurrents.org)
  • Israel has released 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to restart long-stalled Middle East peace talks. (rferl.org)
  • Speaking at a welcoming ceremony in Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said the Palestinians would reject any attempt by the Israelis to 'trade' the freeing of prisoners for the continued building of new Jewish settlements. (rferl.org)
  • In a statement, the Palestinian cabinet described the releases as a first step to a full eventual prisoner amnesty and statehood in the West Bank, including adjacent East Jerusalem, and Gaza. (rferl.org)
  • Israeli officials have frequently negotiated prisoner exchange agreements, most famously when they agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the release of Gilad Shalit who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In addition to trading prisoners for captive Israelis, the government has sometimes released prisoners as a goodwill gesture to satisfy Palestinian demands in peace talks. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Consequently, the Palestinian leadership seeks to pressure Israel to release as many prisoners as possible, including those with "blood on their hands," while making as few concessions as possible. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Israel and Islamist group Hamas have agreed to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the lone captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • January 2004 - Israel releases 436 Palestinian and other Arab prisoners in a deal with Hizbollah for the return of Elhanan Tannenbaum, an Israeli businessman, and three dead Israeli soldiers abducted on a border patrol in 2000. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • which entails the release of numerous Palestinian prisoners in return for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit . (ynetnews.com)
  • Another relative of a political prisoner, who declined to be named, said getting packages to inmates at Tharyarwaddy is significantly more complicated. (globalsecurity.org)
  • We had to fight for our rights as they forced political prisoners to perform hard labor with the other inmates and we endured torture there," he said. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Oct. 2011 - Israel agreed a deal with Hamas that around 1,027 prisoners would be freed in exchange for Israeli soldier and tank crewman, Gilad Shalit , who has been held since 2006. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Maksym Butkevytch, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, human rights defender and pacifist, is being held as a prisoner of war, after the capture of his Ukrainian army platoon by Russian occupying forces in June. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Ukrainian prisoners of war will soon be fighting against their own country, Russian state media says. (businessinsider.com)
  • Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have exchanged 200 prisoners in a move aimed at ending their five-year war. (theage.com.au)
  • Yulia embraces her husband Olexander Korinkov, a Ukrainian soldier and prisoner of war released after a prisoner exchange, at Boryspil airport outside Kiev, Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • A Ukrainian war prisoner leaves a bus after being released near Odradivka, eastern Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • The last major prisoner swap between separatist rebels and Ukrainian forces took place in December 2017, with 233 rebels exchanged for 73 Ukrainians. (theage.com.au)
  • Ukrainian war prisoners escorted by armed Russia-backed separatist soldiers walk to buses to be exchanged at a checkpoint near Horlivka, eastern Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • They may be unionists or not, convicted prisoners or not, either prisoners of conscience or prisoners of war. (counterpunch.org)
  • The Yaran are among hundreds of prisoners of conscience, including journalists and bloggers, human-rights advocates, and student activists, who are being punished for peacefully exercising their basic human rights. (thedailybeast.com)
  • There have been several demands and campaigns for the release of political prisoners in India, related to a single political prisoner, a group or more generally for all political prisoners. (countercurrents.org)
  • What is a political prisoner? (counterpunch.org)
  • The traditional notion of a political prisoner is a person who is imprisoned for political ideas and political activities, whether those activities are legal or not. (counterpunch.org)
  • After the detainees were freed early on October 30, there were scenes of celebration in the West Bank and Gaza, where Palestinians welcomed home the prisoners, some of whom had spent more than 20 years behind bars. (rferl.org)
  • But according to US media reports, Secretary of State Colin Powell wants the US to restate its position, making clear the detainees, though not prisoners of war, are still covered by the provisions of the Geneva Convention. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Free Tibet is campaigning on the cases of 10 detainees and prisoners. (freetibet.org)
  • You can search and download ( £ ) these selected prisoners of war records 1715-1945 from Findmypast.co.uk. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Prisoners. (who.int)
  • Since Israel began negotiating prisoner exchange deals in 1985, they have released more than 3,500 Palestinians. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • May 1985 - Israel releases 1,150 Arab prisoners in exchange for three Israel soldiers held by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The Israeli Knesset voted 35-15 on November 3, 2014, to preclude the government from negotiating with Palestinians through prisoner releases and exchanges. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The prisoner issue is one of the most sensitive for the Palestinians and the ability to negotiate their release is a sign of strength. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • CDCR refuses to negotiate with the prisoners. (indybay.org)
  • There are some older Tibetan prisoners serving long sentences who have a wife and children at home. (freetibet.org)
  • The remarks were intended as a response to continuing debate about the legal status of the prisoners, and whether they should be granted prisoner of war rights under the Geneva Convention. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Specifically, he has asked that you conclude that GPW - the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War - does apply to both al-Qaeda and the Taleban," the memo from White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales is quoted as saying. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The move could violate the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. (businessinsider.com)
  • Azeri authorities continue to torture, abuse, and murder Armenians in their custody with flagrant disregard for all international norms, as well as for international and interstate laws and conventions governing the status of wartime captives and prisoners of war. (change.org)
  • Many prisoners have said they will strike to death in order to maintain their rights as human beings and also stop the torture they are experiencing. (indybay.org)
  • Interrogations and punishments are routinely accompanied by torture, mock executions and attempts to humiliate prisoners. (freetibet.org)
  • Principles of medical ethics relevant to the protection of prisoners against torture = Principes d'éthique médicale concernant la protection des prisonniers contre la torture. (who.int)
  • And they make a game of instigating "gladiator" contests between prisoners (which sometimes give guards a chance to shoot someone). (counterpunch.org)
  • The "welcome party" guards in Syria give prisoners on arrival. (amnesty.org)
  • US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has insisted that al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects being held at the Guantanamo base in Cuba will not be given prisoner of war status. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Then, on Aug. 10, came the sensational news: five Iranian-born U.S. prisoners were to be released after years of imprisonment. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Akbar Ganji with his wife in Tehran in March (Fars) Dissident Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has threatened to organize a hunger-strike 'movement' in several Western cities if the government does not release three Iranian political prisoners as soon as possible and unconditionally. (rferl.org)
  • There are now 160 prisoners inside Guantanamo's detention centers following that announcement, more than half of whom have been cleared for release. (courthousenews.com)
  • Prisoners and advocates have expressed serious concerns about the state of medical care in Corcoran, Calipatria, Pelican Bay and Salinas Valley where the strike continues. (indybay.org)
  • Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity holds weekly vigils in support of the prisoner hunger strike. (indybay.org)
  • Recruitment of participants in study of high prevalence of and risk factors for latent tuberculosis among prisoners, Tianjin, China. (cdc.gov)
  • Following that mass release, many prisoners were rearrested, including 60 shortly before Operation Protective Edge in July-August 2014. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • A Great Way of Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Independence is to Release All Political Prisoners. (countercurrents.org)
  • Some very famous fasts and movements were started with the aim of release of political prisoners and improving the conditions which they had to endure in jail. (countercurrents.org)
  • One hopes that this effort will result in the release of all or most or at least some of the political prisoners in India, but even if this does not, the documentation made as a result of this effort will be very useful for the campaign which should continue. (countercurrents.org)
  • As Pakistan is also completing 50 years of its independence, such a campaign for release of political prisoners as well as for improving their conditions will be equally relevant for Pakistan as well. (countercurrents.org)
  • In addition, India and Pakistan should reach an agreement around the 75th anniversary of independence for release and repatriation of each other's prisoners. (countercurrents.org)
  • We want to find the prisoners that China has tried to hide, shine a light on their cases, and raise pressure for their release. (freetibet.org)
  • According to a recent article in Newsweek , the filming of the third Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , is reportedly near completion and a release date for the film has been set as June 4, 2004. (infoplease.com)
  • Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners have ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal from jailed former leader Abdullah Ocalan. (rt.com)
  • Prisoner Hunger Strike: Emergency Action! (indybay.org)
  • Join the emergency action to support the California Prisoner Hunger Strike on Friday, Oct. 14, 10:30 AM‐1 PM, at McAllister and Van Ness in San Francisco and tell CDCR and Gov. Jerry Brown to meet the strikers' 5 core demands! (indybay.org)
  • Hundreds of prisoners around California are entering the third week of their hunger strike. (indybay.org)
  • With the second phase of a massive California prisoner hunger strike in its third week, prisoners have begun to report grave medical issues. (indybay.org)
  • 14 The National Prisoner Census is a census of all persons in the legal custody of adult corrective services in all states and territories as at midnight 30 June 2016. (abs.gov.au)
  • Because it is a fact that most prisoners will eventually return to the community, better understanding of prisoner re-entry success and failure is crucial. (huffpost.com)
  • These prisoners have been told to join their families, and reports that they have gone back to the fighting are merely government propaganda," he told Arab News. (arabnews.com)
  • In addition to concerns over personal property, there have been reports of political prisoners being mistreated, physically abused, and even tortured at Tharyarwaddy. (globalsecurity.org)
  • This article reports care experiences with prisoners carried out in the penitentiary institutions of Franco da Rocha, in a group psychotherapy proposal that used psychodrama methodology. (bvsalud.org)
  • Force-feeding is a common practice used against prisoners who refuse to eat and can involve forcing a tube into the person's stomach via the nose. (indybay.org)
  • Based on 1997 data (the most recent available), only about 4 percent of state prisoners and 6.6 percent of federal prisoners are in the this group, wildly out of proportion with the amount of attention reformers and the media like to give them. (freebeacon.com)
  • The accord between the Taliban and Washington excluded the Afghan government and insisted on an exchange of prisoners between President Ashraf Ghani's administration and the insurgent group. (arabnews.com)
  • The outlet had said in late October that Russian authorities were planning to send the group - described as a battalion including about 70 prisoners from various penal colonies - to the front lines and that they were conducting relevant training in preparation. (businessinsider.com)
  • He told reporters that the al-Qaeda prisoners did not belong to an army, or wear distinguishable uniforms and insignia - they were people engaged in attacks on civilians. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Currently the site houses 3,700 people, including prisoners who have already been convicted and those who are still awaiting trial, while others are left on their own, without the support of a public defender. (unodc.org)
  • Political prisoners may be defined broadly as prisoners who have been arrested not for any crimes but for their political views, for their opposition of government and allied powerful business interests, for protecting the democratic rights of people particularly weaker sections, for resisting injustice and exploitation. (countercurrents.org)
  • As of 2013, less than 16 percent of prisoners were serving time for drug use. (freebeacon.com)
  • In the course of India's long and very courageous freedom movement, India became from time to time the country with perhaps the largest number of political prisoners in the world. (countercurrents.org)
  • There is now occasion to take up a more time-specific campaign as the 75th anniversary of the independence of India is approaching on August 15 2022 , and it will be a very appropriate homage to the freedom movement of India if all political prisoners of India are released around the same time, or before this. (countercurrents.org)
  • Most of the prisoners on strike are serving time for alleged links to the PKK, and are deemed terrorists by Turkey and its Western allies.Turkey's government has tried to reconcile with members of the Kurdish minority, which makes up nearly 30 percent of the country's population. (rt.com)
  • Facebook games are common ways of occupying the prisoners' time. (crimemuseum.org)
  • Dr. Michael Sayre, who is the Chief Medical Officer at Pelican Bay was sued successfully by a prisoner in 2009 for knowingly disregarding his severe medical needs. (indybay.org)
  • What does it take for a prisoner to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of re-entry? (huffpost.com)
  • 9 The types of correctional facilities and programs where prisoners are held varies between the states and territories. (abs.gov.au)
  • 13 Persons included in the National Prisoner Census were counted in the state or territory in which they were held in custody regardless of which state or territory imposed the sentence being served. (abs.gov.au)
  • There are over 80,000 prisoners held in solitary in the US today. (counterpunch.org)
  • Hundreds of Taliban prisoners freed by the Afghan government as part of a historic peace deal. (arabnews.com)
  • KABUL: Hundreds of Taliban prisoners freed by the Afghan government as part of a historic peace deal have returned to the battlefield, officials in Kabul told Arab News on Wednesday. (arabnews.com)
  • The prisoners are saying that they are willing to take this to death if necessary to win their demands," says Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and a member of the mediation team working on behalf of the prisoners. (indybay.org)
  • A Defense Ministry spokesman, Fawad Aman, said that intelligence forces believe that some prisoners who returned to the fighting had been killed. (arabnews.com)
  • A study by the Ministry of Justice found that 23% of male and 49% of female prisoners suffer from depression and anxiety. (news-medical.net)
  • Whatever the results in this case, however, forcing prisoners to ingest powerful, mind-altering drugs raises extremely troubling issues, both legal and ethical, especially in the capital setting. (law.com)
  • Prisoners have also been denied medications, including prescriptions for high blood pressure. (indybay.org)
  • The goal is to conquer, through medical and psychological treatment, the effective rehabilitation and social reintegration of prisoners. (unodc.org)
  • Musa Karan, one of the released prisoners, was sentenced to 28 years for killing a Jewish settler in 1992. (rferl.org)
  • Indeed, there are reasons to believe that the number of political prisoners has increased significantly in India during the last eight years or so as many cases of very arbitrary arrests have been reported. (countercurrents.org)
  • It was reacting to a Facebook post by Nationalist candidate Jason Azzopardi on Saturday claiming that prisoners who had lost their right to vote because they had been sentenced to five, seven and 10 years in jail had been allowed to do so in early voting on Saturday, in breach of the law. (timesofmalta.com)
  • prisoners whose legal custody had been transferred to another agency, e.g. police or mental health institutions. (abs.gov.au)
  • He said the purpose of his visit was not to check on the conditions of the prisoners but to thank the American troops presently guarding them. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The prisoners were demanding more rights for the Kurdish population in Turkey and better jail conditions for Ocalan. (rt.com)
  • It can be difficult to locate any facility in Tibet or find out the conditions prisoners are being kept in. (freetibet.org)
  • Petersilia, Joan R. and Susan Turner, Diverting Prisoners to Intensive Probation: Results of an Experiment in Oregon. (rand.org)
  • The work results indicate an increase of tolerance of the prisoners toward their own condition, in addition to an improvement in their interpersonal relationships with other prisoners as well as with non-prisoners. (bvsalud.org)
  • Introducing her article, Liliany Obando writes: "We regard as political prisoners all those who are deprived of the liberty because of political reasons, more particularly because of their opposition to and/or criticism of the status quo. (counterpunch.org)
  • In a two-stage deal, 477 prisoners will be freed, along with Shalit. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • It was hoped that when India becomes free, there will be no more any political prisoners. (countercurrents.org)
  • We've called on the regime to free these three prisoners immediately,' he said. (rferl.org)
  • Free Tibet is standing alongside Tibet's hidden prisoners. (freetibet.org)
  • Mujahid accused government forces of either arresting or killing freed prisoners during the raids. (arabnews.com)
  • So a careful effort has to be made to identify political prisoners and present a list of these political prisoners, along with some essential details of each case, to the government at the latest by June 15, 2022. (countercurrents.org)
  • Hardly any country admits to political prisoners and yet at world level this has always remained a very important issue of human rights and of democracy. (countercurrents.org)