More than 200 prisoners were on the run in Haiti on Friday, a day after they escaped from jail in a violent breakout that left 25 people dead ...
Figures have shown 903 minors – including 264 children aged between 12 and 14 – stood trial for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...
Two inmates have been killed in a prison riot in Jordan, the state news agency said Sunday, after family visits were banned for two weeks to tackle ...
The number of dead from riots in Italy’s overcrowded prisons over measures imposed to contain the coronavirus rose to 12 on Tuesday, officials ...
Inmates in four Italian prisons have revolted over new rules introduced to contain the coronavirus outbreak, leaving one prisoner dead and others ...
Sixteen inmates were killed and five more were wounded in a fight that broke out in a prison in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, the state ...
Indonesia’s supreme court has increased the jail term for a Polish man convicted of treason over links to insurgents in restive Papua, raising ...
Two Australian-Lebanese brothers have been sentenced to a total of 76 years in prison by an Australian court for planning to blow up an Etihad Airways ...
Tunisian authorities on Tuesday began distributing a guide outlining prisoners’ rights to be kept in all detention facilities, AFP witnessed.The ...
Iran dismissed as interference in its state matters French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for the release of two French nationals jailed in ...
Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir appeared on Tuesday before a prosecutors’ committee over the 1989 coup that brought him to power, ...
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, tweeting: “The ball is ...
A Chinese-American detained in Iran in 2016 and later charged for spying will soon be united with his family while an imprisoned Iranian will be ...
Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, who has been detained in Iran, was not charged with spying but a visa violation and her case is under a “quick ...
Russia and Ukraine swapped dozens of prisoners on Saturday in a carefully-negotiated rapprochement that brought Western praise and could thaw a freeze ...
An Iranian serving a life sentence on a conviction of designing a pornographic website has fled the country while on short-term release from prison ...
A 29-year-old Australian student detained in North Korea has been released and is “safe and well,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told ...
The family of an Iranian prisoner killed in jail while serving an eight-year sentence has demanded officials should be brought to justice, ILNA news ...
People in Japan operating drones under the influence could face up to a year in prison under new laws passed on Thursday that aim to control the ...
Iran has received an amnesty request from Beirut for a Lebanese citizen who was detained in 2015 for “collaborating against the state” but ...
Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro said on Tuesday that the prison gang leaders responsible for killing 55 inmates in prisons across the northern ...
At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival ...
Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said.The clashes ...
Oxygen Media has greenlighted a two-hour documentary that will capture Kim Kardashian West’s efforts to free prisoners she believes were wrongly ...
Afghan security forces have inflicted less torture and mistreatment of prisoners detained in the conflict in recent years but “horrendous” ...
“There are several pictures and videos showing the brutal treatment of citizens in the form of beatings in public. So, you can imagine the ...
The head of the Thomson Reuters Foundation said Monday she’s “sincerely worried” about a detained British-Iranian national going on ...
Iran’s parliament will investigate claims by a labor protest leader that he was tortured in prison following strikes at a sugar factory, the ...
During Syria’s seven years of war, many stories of forced disappearances and those who were arbitrarily detained have emerged.However, the story ...
Yemeni journalist Mohammed Abdul-Malek al-Salwy, who was kidnapped and detained by the Houthi militias in October of 2016, was recently released, ...
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