Proto Thema

Unthinkable torture in Iran’s prisons: Police rape women and remove their uteruses to eliminate evidence

Men and women are raped in prisons. Those who are arrested are not fed, they are beaten, their nails are pulled out and they ...
Homeland Security Today

Claim of Improper Relationships Between ICE Detention Officers, Female Detainees Invalid, DHS IG Finds

Following Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) agents interviewing 33 witnesses and spending 380 hours investigating allegations of inappropriate relationships ...
International Middle East Media Center

Hasharon Prison Imposes New Sanctions on Female Detainees

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) informed that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) of Hasharon has imposed many sanctions on Palestinian female detainees who protested against surveillance ...

Women prisoners treated as 'pawns for political gain', court hears

A lawyer representing For Women Scotland accused the prison service of “institutional neglect of and contempt for women’s ...
KSAT

Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights

TALLINN – Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that still haunts her. She nearly lost parental rights to her ...
Los Angeles Times

Belarusian women political prisoners face systematic abuse and stolen motherhood, U.N. says

TALLINN, Estonia — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with fear and anguish that still haunt her. She nearly lost parental rights ...