Bulgaria's Prison Officers Stage National Protest

It s drastically different. Immigration detention is jail, it s jail conditions.

And these prison boxes are guarded by specially trained felines.

Five of them received prison sentences, ranging from eighteen months to two years.

The residents of Novosibirsk that were given prison terms were sentenced to 2.5 and 2 years imprisonment.

Eventually, Ali found himself in and out of prison cells, and by extension, on the run.

They face prison sentences between 10 years and life imprisonment if convicted.

They're the ones who are human debris, not the United States of America and not our soldiers and our prison guards.

Given the gravity of the charges, these members of the media can expect lengthy prison sentences ranging from ten years to several life sentences.

Prison guards told me they are afraid of being found guilty if they don t follow the orders.

This came in response to the defendants' pleas that the car doors be opened, as one of them, a young man called Ilkin Rustamzade, suffers from asthma.

Following one of the trials in February, prison officials had forgotten to handcuff him on the bus heading back to the prison.

Both charges are severe in terms penalties, though media coverage of the case has primarily focused on the terrorism charge.

The appeal and jail sentence is a form of institutional violence and political suppression it has created the youngest group of political prisoners since the handover.

The trial was most recently postponed to 20 May, due to prison authorities failure to bring the accused from jail to the courtroom, rights groups reported.

She routinely traveled back and forth to the prisons to visit award winning journalists such as Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega, who are still serving their long prison terms. This gave Edom a glimpse of what these journalists lives looked like in prison.

Global Voices publicly condemns these unjust prison sentences and joins supporters around the world in demanding information on Bassel Khartabil s status.

Those found in violation of the law can suffer criminal penalties, including multi year prison sentences, for things like conducting opinion polls without the approval of relevant state authorities.

Before the 2014 coup, in which the army grabbed power and established the ruling junta, only six individuals were behind bars for insulting the monarchy.

Ahwazi Arabs activists are commonly accused of secession and being threats to national security, a charge that usually carries the death penalty or a very harsh prison sentence.

When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a culture of sadistic and malicious violence. Texas prison guards regularly rely on excessive force, the judge concluded, officials ignore sexual enslavement, and the state's isolation units function as virtual incubators of psychoses.

Texas prison guards regularly rely on excessive force, the judge concluded, officials ignore sexual enslavement, and the state's isolation units function as virtual incubators of psychoses.

She also speculates that prison officials might be intentionally subjecting inmates to unbearable conditions, in order to provoke riots that would in turn seem to justify legislation like the Sadists Law.

This approach is not only inhumane, but also economically untenable leaders in these countries should be encouraged to redirect scarce law enforcement, court, and prison resources towards more pressing causes.

According to Oksana Trufanova, a human rights observer in Chelyabinsk, Russian prison authorities are backing the legislation financially, pushing it through the parliament in order to pass it and make it easier to earn money by torturing prisoners.

Also, if you look at prison movies, sometimes the way that the guards torture the prisoners is to get them to dig a hole and when the prisoner is finished, they ask him to fill the hole back up and then dig again.

This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka s dictatorship his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.

Posting images, text, and videos online, accompanied by charges of extremism or hate speech, have already led to real prison terms for users such as activist Darya Polyudova and blogger Vadim Tyumentsev.

Egyptian law already criminalizes insults to the president and state institutions, however the proposed draft law would impose jail time and harsher fines, according to legal experts at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.

According to an Izvestia report which quotes the numbers from the Russian Supreme court, in 2012 the courts received 260 criminal cases under extremism articles 280 and 282 of the criminal code, and 208 people received sentences for extremism.