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      Sunday 26 May  
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      Boys salvage materials from Muzenze prison in Goma, eastern DR Congo, on November 21, 2012 after almost all the inmates escaped after prison warders abandoned their posts to flee advancing M23 rebels. Most of the 1,170 inmates who broke out last month were still at large Wednesday and the authorities have had to publicly appeal for calm after posses lynched at least six suspected escapees.
      Bulletin: Mob lynchings on rise after Goma mass prison break

      Bulletin: Mob lynchings on rise after Goma mass prison break

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      Prisoners talk in a corridor at the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town on 18 March 2011. South Africa's highest court ruled Tuesday that prisons are responsible for protecting inmates' health, finding jail authorities liable for negligence in the case of a prisoner who sued them for contracting tuberculosis.
      Bulletin: S. Africa court rules jails liable for prisoner health

      Bulletin: S. Africa court rules jails liable for prisoner health

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      Tunisian MPS wear red armbands in parliament last month in solidarity with hunger striker Mohamed Ibrahim. At least 40 Tunisian Islamist prisoners are still on hunger strike, the justice ministry told AFP on Monday, hours after announcing that the almost two-week protest had ended.
      Bulletin: 40 Tunisia Islamists 'still on hunger strike'

      Bulletin: 40 Tunisia Islamists 'still on hunger strike'

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      The Mozambican government on Thursday accepted criticism of its prisons after a damning report by the London-based rights group Amnesty International.
      Bulletin: Mozambique accepts prison criticism

      Bulletin: Mozambique accepts prison criticism

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      A rooftop view of the skyline in Mozambican capital Maputo in January 2007. A South African man has spent three months locked up in a police station in neighbouring Mozambique over an unpaid hotel bill, Pretoria's foreign ministry said Saturday.
      Bulletin: S. African jailed in Mozambique for unpaid hotel bill

      Bulletin: S. African jailed in Mozambique for unpaid hotel bill

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      A police van leaves Johannesburg's central prison in October 2012 after an explosion near the prison. A South African police officer was arrested Monday for a botched jail break attempt that killed three inmates after a van carrying 36 prisoners was bombed on the way back from court.
      Bulletin: S. Africa policeman arrested for deadly jailbreak blast

      Bulletin: S. Africa policeman arrested for deadly jailbreak blast

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      This general view shows the popular quarter of SEMU in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, on June 15, 2008. A human rights lawyer who was detained in a notorious prison in Equatorial Guinea after visiting a client there was freed after being held in solitary confinement for nine days, he told AFP on Monday.
      Bulletin: Detained Equatorial Guinea rights lawyer 'home at last'

      Bulletin: Detained Equatorial Guinea rights lawyer 'home at last'

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      Mary Serezina, 45, a death-row inmate sentenced for the killing of a relative, describes prison as a "pit of hell." In South Sudan's ramshackle capital, over 100 people await execution in conditions that human rights activists say break basic freedom.
      Bulletin: Prisoners rot on death row in South Sudan

      Bulletin: Prisoners rot on death row in South Sudan

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      A female inmate peers out through the grills of a metallic prison gate at Juba's central prison in South Sudan on October 23. In the ramshackle capital of the world's newest nation, over 100 people await execution in filthy and crowded conditions, which human rights activists say break basic freedoms, with many never having even seen a lawyer.
      Bulletin: Prisoners rot on death row in South Sudan

      Bulletin: Prisoners rot on death row in South Sudan

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      Benin's ex-commerce minister, who is accused of plotting to kill President Thomas Boni Yayi, who pictured on October 26, claims he has been subjected to "psychological torture" in prison, his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.
      Bulletin: Ex-minister in Benin poisoning case 'tortured', says lawyer

      Bulletin: Ex-minister in Benin poisoning case 'tortured', says lawyer

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