Remembering a Jailed Opposition Leader

Jailed Syrian developer moved to undisclosed location

Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, jailed blogger, is on hunger strike over his jail's conditions.

(l) A personal file on each prisoner, including full details about the prisoner's physical and mental health and social circumstances

Mehdi Khazali, a jailed Iranian physician and blogger, has begun his sixth round of a hunger strike in Evin Prison.

People celebrated the victory, without forgetting Mir Hussein Mousavi, a jailed opposition leader.

Any prisoner who infringes prison laws, regulations or rules will be subject to disciplinary action, without prejudice to any criminal responsibility which he may bear for his acts.

It has a vast and growing prison population, with annual spending on each incarcerated inmate equivalent to a middle income California household s after tax income.

Bassel Safadi has been imprisoned in Syria for almost four years and friends and activists fear for his life after he was transferred from his prison today to an unknown location

She submits the communication on behalf of her son, Vazgen Arutyuniantz, also an Uzbek citizen, born 1977, currently imprisoned in the city of Andijan in Uzbekistan.

According to counsel, the information available indicates that he is held in a 2 m2 cell, which is artificially cooled, dark, and without a mattress.

Mahmoud Abu Zaid, aka Shawkan, has been imprisoned for more than 900 days whilst covering the clearance of Cairo's Raba'a el Adaweya camp in support to ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Photo shared on Twitter by Ciluna27.

(c) Inform the prison governor immediately about any death, suicide, escape, accident or serious injury of any prisoner or of any serious offence committed by, or against, prisoners in the prison.

Hossein Ronaghi Maleki,jailed blogger,has started his hunger strike since last Saturday.His health conditions are in dire situation and he was moved for two hours to a hospital .Another political prisoner started hunger strike to support him.

The Code authorizes prison governors to discipline any prisoner who breaches prison rules and regulations that were issued in accordance with the Code and its implementing regulation. Disciplinary measures include solitary confinement for a period of up to two weeks (article 34 of the Prisons Act).

On October 22, 2012 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote an unprecedented open letter to Iran's judiciary accusing them of unconstitutional conduct for barring him from visiting the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran where his media adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr is currently jailed.

In 2002, while still incarcerated, Monteiro created the Center of Social and Cultural Integration known as CISC Uma Chance, which offers courses on IT and recycling to communities of Tribobó, in São Gonçalo, in Greater Rio de Janeiro.

The Government of the Republic of Yemen, out of a desire to protect prisoners' rights, including against illegal incommunicado detention, promulgated Decree No. 91 of 1995, providing for the establishment of a central prosecutor's office for prisons in every governorate, to carry out the tasks and functions required of it by law.