A joint parliamentary report has laid bare conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons, exposing chronic overcrowding, dilapidated facilities, inadequate basics, and inhuman treatment of inmates as the most ...

Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United Nations and local authorities said.

Israeli human rights organisation, B’Tselem, alleges that Palestinian detainees are denied medical treatment, adequate food, ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by the five-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian economic commentator Abdel Khaleq Farouk, convicted of joining a terrorist organization, ...

Defence lawyer Caleb Alaka informed the court that Mukulu had previously complained of being denied special food, kept in isolation, and exposed to harsh prison conditions Thank you for reading Nation ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) on Monday opened a two-day consultation in Johannesburg focusing on health in prisons and the ...

Seven Chinese nationals who smuggled Malawians to South Africa and subjected them to forced labour have been handed 20-year prison terms each. The four men and three women were found guilty of human ...