Solitary Confinement

Back home after spending more than two years behind bars, AAP leader Satyendar Jain says he battled loneliness during his time in jail and often longed to talk to someone while he was in solitary confinement in an 8x8 foot cell.

The ex-wife of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan called for his immediate release, citing "serious and concerning" reports about his treatment in prison.

These tiny rooms, compact as store cupboards, are connected to the outside world only through a feeding hole in the door.

Robert Maudsley, dubbed "Hannibal the Cannibal," has been held in solitary confinement at Wakefield Prison for 45 years due to his extreme danger, locked behind 17 steel doors resembling conditions akin to Hannibal Lecter.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought to know from the Maharashtra prison authorities how long they plan to keep Himayat Baig, convicted in the 2010 Pune blast case, in solitary confinement.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to Parliament to repeal the penal law provisions enabling the jail authorities to keep prisoners in solitary confinement.

Indian national Nikhil Gupta, charged by federal prosecutors in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a Khalistani terrorist on American soil, is being subjected to human rights violations, including extended solitary confinement, while in custody.

Poor nutrition, solitary confinement -- details of how the hostages seized when Hamas attacked southern Israel have been treated in captivity are starting to emerge from under a veil of secrecy.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said he had been moved back into solitary confinement and forced to endure "extremely hellish" conditions.

The Delhi High Court sought the Centre's stand on Tuesday on a petition against solitary confinement of prison inmates.

The Supreme Court Friday commuted the death sentence awarded to a man for the rape and murder of a widow in 1998, noting he was in solitary confinement in jail for about 10 years.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison compound in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said on Thursday.

Juan Cuadrado has tested positive for coronavirus, but is asymptomatic, Juventus said in a statement.

Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with north-east Delhi violence in February, told a Delhi court on Thursday that he was not allowed to step out of his cell and it was sort of a "solitary confinement".

Keepers at a zoo in Gujarat are putting their big cats into solitary confinement after a tiger in the United States caught the novel coronavirus.

Back home after spending more than two years behind bars, AAP leader Satyendar Jain says he battled loneliness during his time in jail and often longed to talk to someone while he was in solitary confinement in an 8x8 foot cell.

The ex-wife of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan called for his immediate release, citing "serious and concerning" reports about his treatment in prison.

These tiny rooms, compact as store cupboards, are connected to the outside world only through a feeding hole in the door.

Robert Maudsley, dubbed "Hannibal the Cannibal," has been held in solitary confinement at Wakefield Prison for 45 years due to his extreme danger, locked behind 17 steel doors resembling conditions akin to Hannibal Lecter.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought to know from the Maharashtra prison authorities how long they plan to keep Himayat Baig, convicted in the 2010 Pune blast case, in solitary confinement.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to Parliament to repeal the penal law provisions enabling the jail authorities to keep prisoners in solitary confinement.

Indian national Nikhil Gupta, charged by federal prosecutors in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a Khalistani terrorist on American soil, is being subjected to human rights violations, including extended solitary confinement, while in custody.

Poor nutrition, solitary confinement -- details of how the hostages seized when Hamas attacked southern Israel have been treated in captivity are starting to emerge from under a veil of secrecy.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said he had been moved back into solitary confinement and forced to endure "extremely hellish" conditions.

The Delhi High Court sought the Centre's stand on Tuesday on a petition against solitary confinement of prison inmates.

The Supreme Court Friday commuted the death sentence awarded to a man for the rape and murder of a widow in 1998, noting he was in solitary confinement in jail for about 10 years.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison compound in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said on Thursday.

Juan Cuadrado has tested positive for coronavirus, but is asymptomatic, Juventus said in a statement.

Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with north-east Delhi violence in February, told a Delhi court on Thursday that he was not allowed to step out of his cell and it was sort of a "solitary confinement".

Keepers at a zoo in Gujarat are putting their big cats into solitary confinement after a tiger in the United States caught the novel coronavirus.