PRI adds seven new country profiles

Committed to brining you detailed and current information about pretrial detention rights around the world, Pretrial Rights International has added seven new country profiles to its database.  Check out: Armenia Brazil Colombia Egypt Haiti Malaysia Sri Lanka We couldn’t gather such in-depth information without the help of our supporters.  Many thanks to Squire Patton Boggs LLP for its continued support of Pretrial Rights International’s cause. Several law schools are also discussing potential partnerships with us.  We’d love to have your school’s support, developing country pages, monitoring law, meeting with local lawyers, assisting in legislative drafting, and representing clients worldwide.  Please contact us if you or your school are interested in...

Russia: A Complex Web of Pretrial Detention

Russia’s a tough country to be detained in.  Pretrial detention is common.  And pretrial rights and remedies are on the books.  Limits exist.  But a massive question of enforcement remains.  The European Court of Human Rights has a large number of cases finding the Russian government violated basic human rights obligations by detaining persons awaiting trial for excessively long periods of time and in poor conditions.  We’ve laid out the letter of the law in our most recent Country Profile for Russia. Our experience in Russia has been that the authorities will find hooks within the law to keep persons detained.  If the maximum detention period is met, additional charges are lodged to “start” a “new” detention period.  The diplomatic relationship between Russia and the United States makes pressing for pretrial detention rights difficult – we’ve heard that on the State Department’s list of 100 priority items with Russia, pretrial detention rights are...

Pretrial Rights in India

India has an entrenched history of pretrial detention rights abuses, from excessively long detention periods to prison overcrowding to physical abuse.  If you or a loved one is in pretrial detention in India, we hope this new country profile will provide you with valuable...