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Leading Iranian human rights advocate freed from prison amid fear of contracting coronavirus behind bars

Washington PostNov 27, 2020

US-Chilean journalist describes torture in Ukrainian prison

India’s political prisoners in bad health, lose family amid COVID

Al JazeeraSep 27

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says

Hunger strikes like Navalny’s are a Russian tradition dating back to the czar’s prisons

Washington PostNov 27, 2021

Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Meet Sanaa Seif, Just Out of Prison, Calling on Egypt to Release Her Brother

Democracy NowNov 05

Abuse and torture in Egyptian prisons fuels ISIL recruitment: NGO

Al JazeeraNov 05

Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses