Reports
OPR's annual assessments of Mogadishu's prisons and detention facilities, and its special documentation reports on specific facilities, cases, and patterns.
Annual assessments
Annual Assessment Report on Human Rights Violations in Mogadishu Prisons and Detention Facilities
OPR's 2025 assessment of Mogadishu's prisons and detention facilities: conditions, gender-based violence and access to justice.
Annual Assessment Report on Human Rights Violations in Mogadishu Prisons and Detention Facilities
OPR's annual assessment of Mogadishu's prisons and detention facilities for 2024: the legal framework, conditions of detention, gender-based violence, the treatment of children and minorities, and access to justice…
Annual Assessment Report on Human Rights Violations in Mogadishu Prisons and Detention Facilities
In 2016, Somalia went through a significant transformation as it shifted into a federal state made up of five Federal Member States — Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, Puntland, and Southwest State — alongside the…
Annual Assessment Report on Human Rights Violations in Mogadishu Prisons and Detention Facilities
As of 2016, Somalia has been a federal state made up of five Federal Member States — Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, Puntland, and South West State — alongside the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, which does not…
Situational Report (SITREP) on the State of Human Rights Violations in Mogadishu Prisons
Conditions in many prisons are, in short, so deficient as to constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, violating article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Special reports
Reclaiming the Constitutional Promise: The Imperative for Penal and Prison Reform in Somalia
A comprehensive policy analysis of Somalia’s 1962 Penal Code, the custodial crisis, and the accountability gap — and the case for urgent legislative reform addressed to the Federal Parliament and Somalia’s international…
Somalia's Prisons in Crisis: Evidence from Nine Prisons and Detention Facilities
Somalia’s prison system remains one of the least examined yet most critical components of the country’s justice and security sector.