{"id":519,"date":"2013-07-06T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=519"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:19:48","slug":"politis-asia-no-12-13-prison-prisoners-and-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2013\/07\/politis-asia-no-12-13-prison-prisoners-and-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Politis Asia NO 12 &#8211; 13 Prison, Prisoners and Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Politis asia<\/strong><\/em> is a journal of high quality and original thinking on contemporary issues. A unique instrument and space for intellectual production, <em>Siasatnama<\/em> endeavours to influence political and intellectual elite and to enable citizens to make informed choices, highlighting the role of citizens, democracy and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Read this special bilingual issue on Prison, Prisoners and Human Rights:<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:HyphenationZone>21<\/w:HyphenationZone>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n{mso-style-name:\"Tableau Normal\";\nmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\nmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\nmso-style-noshow:yes;\nmso-style-parent:\"\";\nmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\nmso-para-margin:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\nfont-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-ansi-language:#0400;\nmso-fareast-language:#0400;\nmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<div style=\"mso-element: para-border-div; border: none; border-top: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; margin-left: 1.7pt; margin-right: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -36.0pt; border: none; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414706\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">AFGHANISTAN <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414707\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Prisons and treatment of prisoners <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414708\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Parliamentary committee visits Pul-e Charkhi Prison<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414709\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Afghan prisons population increases 20% a year<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414710\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Human rights violations in Bagram and Pul-e Charkhi prisons<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414711\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Demand for transfer of Bagram Prison to Afghan control<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414712\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Prisons and prisoners in Afghanistan as viewed by a lawyer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414713\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">An introduction to prison rules in Afghanistan<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414714\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">TORTURE AND DEATH PENALTY<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414715\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Mistreatment of conflict-related detainees in Afghan facilities &#8211; UN<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414719\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">WOMEN AND PRISON<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414720\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Afghanistan: Women prisoners, problems, shortages and lack of attention<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414721\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls Jailed for \u2018Moral Crimes\u2019- HRW<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414722\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Women\u2019s prison in Herat<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414723\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">INTERNATIONAL<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414724\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Guantanamo: 10 years of injustice, arbitrary detention &amp; violation of international law<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414725\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">HRW: Investigate Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414726\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">PRISON LITERATURE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414716\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Abolitionist and retentionist countries<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414717\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">The Use Of the Death Penalty In 2011-Afghanistan<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414718\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">An introduction to \u201cdeath penalty\u201d in Iran<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414727\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Prison memoirs: From Bagram to Guant\u00e1namo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414728\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Prison and literature: memoirs of political prisoners<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><a href=\"#_Toc323414729\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">PRISON AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FURTHER READING<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Sansinterligne\" style=\"margin-left: 1.7pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; 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