Death in custody is when a person dies when in the custody of the police, prison service or other authorities. Death in custody remains a controversial subject, with the authorities often being accused of abuse, neglect, racism and cover-ups of the causes of these deaths.[1] [2]
See separate article: Aboriginal deaths in custody
At least 32 people have died in "Operation Clean Heart" by the government of Bangladesh.See Human rights in Bangladesh
See Insein Prison, Human rights in Burma
Some estimate 20 million have died in the Chinese prison system. See Laogai, democide.
See Human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
See Police encounter
See Cipinang Penitentiary Institution
See 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners
See Terence Wheelock
"At least 650 people have been killed by police officers in Jamaica since 1999. Many of these have been blatantly unlawful killings, yet not one officer has been convicted since then." Piers Bannister, Amnesty International’s Jamaica researcher.
Of the 1,592 deaths in Japanese prisons, 1992-2002, 68 required autopsies due to questionable circumstances.[3] See Human rights in Japan
See Abu Salim prison
See Human rights in North Korea
See Human rights in Saudi Arabia
South Africa has an unusually high level of deaths in custody. For example in April to June 1997, there were 56 deaths in custody [4].
See Human rights in the United Arab Emirates
Almost 100 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to U.S. group Human Rights First. They include: