Belarus ranks first place in Europe by number of prisoners per 100k people


Istanbul Criminal Law Academy has published statistics showing the number of people behind bars per hundred thousand people.

According to the data provided by the Academy, Belarus comes first: 345 people in prison for one hundred thousand Belarusians. There are more than 31 thousand prisoners for 9 million people.

The second place is occupied by Turkey, where there are 335 prisoners out of 100 thousand.

Iceland and Norway have the least number of prisoners – 33 and 49 respectively per hundred thousand people.

In Belarus, as of July 25, 584 people have been recognized as political prisoners.

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