October 21, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The Kuala Lumpur Court for Children is located at the end of a long and narrow corridor in the Kuala Lumpur Courthouse, quite a daunting and complicated stretch...
Over the last couple of weeks 2010 JusticeMaker Fellow Muhammad Waqas Abid conducted 18 ‘Legal Literacy and Support of Victims’ seminars throughout the district of Kasur, in Punjab Province, Pakistan. Below you find can...
Ms. N. D. Anulawathi was released from Welikada Prison, outside Colombo, on 29th October 2010. Anulawathi was arrested for possession of heroin and incarcerated in the women’s ward for 26 months. Soon after the...
What began unexpectedly on a customary prison visit has transformed the last decade of Yasmeen’s life. A lawyer for 24 years, working mainly in financial, commercial and family law, 2010 JusticeMakers Fellow Yasmeen Shariff...
On September 4 2010, Mohamed Nowsan, a 28 year old father of one, was arrested and interred in Tengalle prison. He claims that the charges against him were fabricated by the police and that...
The training consisted of highlighting various aspects of international human right treaties. Shahanur explained the concept, definition and origin of human rights, including details of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), whilst comparing...
The majority of prisons in Bangladesh have no medical facilities. Only eleven of 67 prisons have primary treatment centres which are staffed by a doctor; Kumilla, Sylehet, Mymensing, Jesore, Barisal and Kashmipur each have...
On October 19 JusticeMaker Harshi Perera successfully secured the release of a female inmate, Nilmini Pushpakumari. Nilmini was interred in Welikada women’s ward on charges of selling heroine. Upon arrest, Nilmini was sent to...
(October 20, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Kumari is a 23 years old mother of one child. She was in remand prison along with her one year and eight month old baby girl. They have...
On October 6, 2010, Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Badal was arrested by the Drug Control Directorate police of the Ramna zone in the Dhaka metropolitan area. He was detained on the charge of being an...
