Legal experts say the smuggling charge against Kseniia Petrova is unlikely to be upheld, though it could bolster deportation ...

Dali has been in custody for more than five months since sneaking onto the France-bound jet at the Queens airport.

A human rights group says a Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a prison sentence for insulting the country’s authoritarian president.

The government will expand a small pilot scheme offering voluntary chemical castration to some sex offenders to 20 more prisons after the report said that trial should continue. Former Lord Chancellor ...

Thousands of Ukrainians have been systematically abducted and tortured by Russian forces, says a report by the investigative journalism organization IStories.

Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians are still being held in captivity in Russian-occupied areas, according to international observers, often held incommunicado for months or years.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Tuesday that it had launched criminal proceedings against a prominent journalist who heads a publication in neighboring Latvia providing critical coverage of ...

Diane Kruger (pictured above in character) portrays an inmate at Ravensbruck who is made a Kapo - a senior prisoner given the ...

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By George Mhango, Blantyre in Malawi The Human Rights Consultative Committee-HRCC—mother body of rights organisations—has ...

Culley, 18, is alleged to have smuggled dozens of bags of cannabis and hashish into the former Soviet Union country of Georgia and is currently being held in prison ...

Ukraine’s only female combat pilot flies helicopter missions against Russian troops. The military says it wants more women ...