Human rights in Russia Prisoners' Union Human rights in the Soviet Union Gulag United Kingdom prison population Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners Hirst...

International and the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, by 2017 an estimated 200,000 prisoners were incarcerated in camps that were dedicated...

Prisoners' rights in international law are found in a number of international treaties. For the most part these treaties came into existence following...

hunger-striking prisoners. However, the Israel Medical Association declared the legislation unethical and urged doctors to refuse to implement it. Prisoners are allowed...

for Human Rights (FIDH) reported that "Israel does not recognize Palestinian prisoners as having the status of prisoners of war." The prisoners are instead...

Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP) was a prisoners' rights organisation set up in the early 1970s in the United Kingdom, which organised more...

number of prisoners. Aside from those who converted to Islam, most were ransomed or enslaved. Pasquier writes, It was the custom to enslave prisoners of war...

provides POWs such rights, and POWs in past wars—such as Japanese prisoners of war in World War II—have generally not been given these rights. The U.S. Supreme...

highlighted various issues that constitute ill-treatment of prisoners, such as remand prisoners being routinely held on lock-down for 19 hours per day, an...

Both federal and state laws govern the rights of prisoners. Prisoners in the United States do not have full rights under the Constitution, however, they...