2010 Asia JusticeMakers Fellow from Bangladesh Adv. Shahanur Islam has completed preparations on training materials on torture and human rights. Mr. Shahanur, who is also the executive director of the Bangladesh Institute of Human...
"After she returned to Sri Lanka the police arrested her husband and remanded him. He is in the male ward in the same prison. A week after her husband's arrest she too was arrested...
"When Madu went to the police station the next day she was assaulted with a cricket pole and told to plead guilty. They took her signature on a written statement by force. The statement...
"When she was eleven Susani’s mother was imprisoned for selling drugs and she was placed in the care of her grandmother. At that time a friend of her father who was 23-years-old was hiding...
" In an interview she said that when she was taken into the prison she was wearing a white saree. A female prison officer forced her to change it saying it was not suitable...
On Wednesday September 22, 2010, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) Dhaka issued a warrant for the arrest of four police officers, prominent among them former Ramna officer-in-charge Mahbubur Rahman. The officers are accused...
"Dotee admitted her child to a Government hospital where she was treated for four days. The JMO refrained from examining her ear wounds saying that only the other sexual matter was relevant. When Dotee...
IBJ-Zimbabwe recently held a roundtable discussion with its partner organizations, LRF, LSZ and ZACRO, and journalists and private lawyers to strategize on the conducting of a prison census in Zimbabwe. During the engaging discussion,...
Rasul Jafarov, International Bridges to Justice’s 2010 JusticeMaker Fellow in Azerbaijan, has recently launched a project to develop comprehensive legal education programs in Azeri prisons. In support of this project, Rasul approached the Ministry...
I have been working for IBJ as Rwanda Office Coordinator since March, but it was not until August that I decided to visit a prison. When I arrived at the main gate the first...
