United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. undefined
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Prisoners shall be kept informed regularly of the more important items of news by the reading of newspapers, periodicals or special institutional publications, by hearing wireless transmissions, by lectures or by any similar means as authorized or controlled by the prison administration.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Rule
Reference
UNGA resolution, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) (2015), A/RES/70/175, Rule 63.