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The Belgian state has been convicted by the Brussels civil court for having illegally detained two students, one Moroccan and the other Congolese, upon their arrival in the country.
Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele is being transferred to a new prison in Iran as negotiations between the two countries over his release continue to go nowhere.
Belgian humanitarian worker Olivier Vandecasteele is said to appear in even worse shape after 10 months of solitary confinement in Iran, where he has been sentenced to 28 years in prison under esp
Staff at the Saint-Gilles prison have been on strike since Monday evening, with the action expected to last until at least Wednesday.
Some 55 Belgian magistrates and members of the judicial system spent a weekend locked up in the new Haren "mega-prison" as part of an exercise intended to let them experience life in prison first-
The family of a Belgian aid worker is sounding the alarm about his isolated incarceration in an Iranian prison.
The non-profit organisation Music Projects for Brussels, which aims to reintegrate prisoners and patients from psychiatric institutions into society by helping them stage concerts, is organising a
According to a newspaper report published on Monday, 19 municipalities have proposed sites to house detention centres for convicted juveniles as part of justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne’s
With the new penal code expected to come into force in 2022, Belgian judges will no longer be able to impose imprisonment on those committing the lightest offences, justice minister Vincent Van Qu
