Africa: Mandela Rules Adopted for Prisoners

The Mandela Rules could herald a new era of respect for prisoners' human rights, according to Amnesty International.

This follows the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which adopted crucial revisions of 60-year-old international standards on treatment of prisoners at a meeting on 22 May in Vienna.

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