California prisons: ‘Solitary confinement can amount to cruel punishment,...
Geneva, Aug. 23, 2013 –United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez today urged the United States government to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement. There...
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by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez today called on the United States to immediately end the...
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by Albert Woodfox Well, the old man has decided to leave us! I am sure it was a very hard choice for him: Who will I serve, the ancestors who have called me home or humanity whom I love so much? Old...
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