torture

UN rights experts urge review of standards for treatment of prisoners

United Nations human rights experts today urged a review of the universally accepted global principles and practices for the treatment of prisoners and management of penitentiary institutions, particularly decrying the use of solitary confinement.

UN rights office welcomes Tunisian law on national anti-torture body

Welcoming the adoption by the National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia of a law on setting up a national body to prevent torture, the United Nations human rights Office hailed the decision as an “important milestone” in the country’s ongoing transition.

Four decades in solitary confinement amounts to torture, UN expert tells US authorities

An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the United States to immediately end the indefinite solitary confinement imposed on Albert Woodfox for the past four decades.