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UN finding on five IPP prisoners' detention
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The UN Working Group found that five prisoners in England and Wales are being held unlawfully and condemned IPP sentences as psychological torture. It urged the UK government to launch a full independent investigation; the report gives no update on a government response or whether that investigation has begun.
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UN Condemns UK IPP Sentences as Torture, Declares Five Prisoners Unlawfully Detained
In its first ruling on IPP, the UN finds five men unlawfully held with no basis for detention after tariff and demands an independent inquiry into a sentence that still holds almost 2,400.
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- No confirmed government timetable for review, re-sentencing or release of the wider IPP cohort.
- No verified total for deaths and exact remaining population beyond almost 2,400 cited in reporting.
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The Independentindependent.co.uk3
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