Hungary’s Orban targets Roma with national survey
Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orban, has announced a “national consultation” of households during March to collect public opinion in…
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French helicopter jail bust robber recaptured
Redoine Faid, the French bank robber who escaped from prison in a hijacked helicopter in July, has been recaptured, according…
Romanian inmates get early release
Overcrowding and filthy conditions in Romanian prisons will allow thousands of convicts to regain their freedom regardless of their crimes…
HRW demands release of Uzbek prisoner
President Islam Karimov with fellow strongman Vladimir Putin. Source: Kremlin Muhammad Bekjanov, one of the world’s longest-imprisoned journalists, has been…
Prison riot blamed on ‘legal highs’
The authorities deployed riot police. Source: Wikimedia Around 240 prisoners are being moved out of Birmingham’s main prison in the…
‘Legal’ highs spark prison violence
Legal changes have made ‘legal’ highs illegal. Source: Wikimedia A UK prison has seen a fourfold rise in the use…