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‘Conditions unsafe and inhumane’ — UN official calls for global prison reforms

Alice Edwards, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on torture, has urged countries to review prison management practices and policies to ensure compliance with human rights. Edwards spoke on Friday

Finally, reps to probe human rights abuses in prisons

The house of representatives says it will investigate reports of violation of human rights and infrastructural decay in Nigerian prisons. Addressing journalists on Monday in Abuja, Anayo Edwin, chairman, house

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