Resources listing

Submission

Submission to the 103rd Session of the Human Rights Committee, Country Report Task Force on Armenia, October 2011

Ahead of its 103rd session, Penal Reform International submitted information to the Human Rights Committee on Armenia. The briefing outlines PRI’s concerns with regard to the excessive use of pre-trial detention in Armenia, while alternative non-custodial preventive measures are hardly ever applied. Even after the release of 508 prisoners under an amnesty in May 2011, […]

Languages: English

Report

Recommendations from the South Caucasus region

In July 2011, PRI co-organised a regional conference in Tbilisi on the issue of life imprisonment in the South Caucasus region. This report denotes the recommendations from the participants of the conference. REGIONAL CONFERENCE LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS REGION RECOMMENDATIONS of the conference participants 15 July 2011 Sheraton Metechi Palace hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia

Languages: English

Report

Life Imprisonment and Conditions of Serving the Sentence in the South Caucasus

This study evaluates the position of life prisoners in South Caucasus with the results to be used to advocate international standards and norms. It forms part of the project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’. Published by PRI with the aid of the European Union

Languages: English, Georgian

Model for Reform

PRI and partners report on treatment and conditions of prisoners serving life in South Caucasus

PRI and partners presented their final report on research carried out into the treatment and conditions of prisoners serving life sentences in the South Caucasus, in a meeting in Baku on 12th February 2009. The work was carried out within a broader EU-funded project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’, aimed at encouraging the […]

Languages: English