Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

The Rights of Prisoners According to Islamic Teachings

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Freedom, a Fundamental Principle
• The rights of Prisoners According to Islamic Teachings
• Notes
• Chapter 2: Torture and Prisons Must Be Purged
• Torture is an un-Islamic Phenomenon
• Means of discovering the truth
• Psycho analysis
• The rule of repetition and doubt
• Twist and Turn
• Probing and Examination
• Insight and Astuteness
• Exposing Torture and Ill Treatment
• No to Prisons and Detention Centres
• The Disadvantages of Prisons
• Political Harm
• Social Harm
• Economic Harm
• Educational Harm
• Health Harm
• Other harmful effects of imprisonment
• Notes
• Chapter 3: Islamic Penal Law - Criteria For Implementation
• Introduction
• References of Circumstance
• Validity of the Offence under Islamic Law
• Notes
• Chapter 4: Rights of a Prisoner
• Rights of a Prisoner
• Marriage
• Witness
• Writing, Teaching, Lecturing
• Skills
• Sport
• Hobbies
• Family visits
• Segregation
• Health and Hygiene
• Food and Drink
• Students of the prisoner
• Psychological well-being
• Women prisoners
• Inspector of prisons
• Chastisement of prisoners
• Offence of prisoner
• The right to a defence lawyer
• Amongst prisoner's rights
• Prison rules
• Practice of Religion
• Religious rites and festivals
• Choice of prison location
• Prisoner's possession
• Informing next of kin
• The rights of Prisoners according to Islamic teachings
• Men and women prisons
• Insanity of prisoner
• Studying
• Employment inside prison
• Rights of a Prisoner
• Labour law
• Equal treatment
• The insane
• Prison building
• Prison staff
• Expert services
• Rights of a Prisoner
• After release
• Prisoner rights group
• Prisoner's future
• Prison categories
• Provisional Detention
• Criminal Imprisonment
• Traditions and customs of the new judge
• Some aspects of the duties of a judge
• Notes
• Chapter 5: Rulings
• Imprisonment
• The Rights of Prisoners According to Islamic Teachings
• Confinement
• Rulings
• Torture
• Fasting and hunger strike
• Notes
• The Author