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In 2023, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the first UN human rights investigator permitted to visit the camp since it was established 20 years ago reported that the 30 prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay continued to be subjected to "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment" by the US government. The number of detainees at the time of the visit was 34 ...
In June 2003, Amnesty International published reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military and its coalition partners at detention centers and prisons in Iraq. [31] These included reports of brutal treatment at Abu Ghraib prison , which had once been used by the government of Saddam Hussein , and had been taken over by the United States ...
Senussi did not accept to put prisoners on trial, but he agreed to the other conditions, once the captured guard was released. [28] The prisoners agreed. Hundreds of injured and sick prisoners were told they would receive medical care and were taken away in buses. They were never seen again and their whereabouts are unknown to the present day. [29]
On 24 January 2005, the ACLU accused the Pentagon of deliberately closing investigations over Human Rights violations and torture cases before they were over. [57] Human Rights Watch accused Iraqi security forces of using torture and improper treatments on prisoners. Arbitrary arrests and long periods of isolation are now common.
The massacre has also sparked ongoing discussions, both in Brazil and internationally about Brazil's prison system. In 2017, The New York Times published an article captioned "Brazil’s Deadly Prison System". Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have also documented statistics of police violence and acquittals in Brazil. [14]
With capacity for 40,000 inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity. CECOT–as well as the gang crackdown as a whole–have been the subject of international media attention, receiving praise for the Salvadoran government as well as criticism of alleged human rights violations.
“Just got to ignore all the human rights abuses,” one user sarcastically commented. ... Ahmed Mansoor, who was detained since 20 March 2017, sentenced to 10 years in prison, and placed in ...
Fujimori was already serving a six-year prison sentence for his December 2007 conviction on abuse of power charges. The trial for Fujimori's human rights abuses lasted 15 months, and was postponed on multiple occasions due to his ill health. [53] [55] Later on 7 April, the court sentenced Fujimori to 25 years in prison. [56]