Prison to close after `zoo' report

Strasbourg - Prisoners in Andorra's Casa de la Vall prison are photographed by passers-by "like caged animals in a zoo", according…

Strasbourg - Prisoners in Andorra's Casa de la Vall prison are photographed by passers-by "like caged animals in a zoo", according to a Council of Europe report by its Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Andorran government announced in response to the report that the prison would be closed shortly.

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