Why are nearly 10,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons – one-third of them without charge?
Military also pardons 3,000 prisoners to mark this year’s traditional New Year holiday.
Wheelchair-bound ex-Delhi University professor is acquitted after 10 years of imprisonment over alleged Maoist links.
Thousands of inmates have escaped two of Haiti’s biggest prisons after they were stormed by armed gangs.
Police issue urgent appeal for help as they struggle to hold back gangs trying to storm the prison in major escalation.
Three years ago, nine men lined up to pray in a Missouri prison. No one has been held accountable for what followed.
Lyudmila Navalnaya says investigators trying to set conditions on where, when and how Kremlin critic should be buried.
High-level US officials are yet to face justice for their roles in the US torture and rendition programmes.
Police in Russia have detained more than 400 people at memorials honouring Alexey Navalny.
Israel stepped up its arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank, and mistreatment of prisoners in its overstuffed jails.
The Kremlin critic’s mother also said her son was ‘alive, healthy and happy’ when she saw him this week.
Kremlin critic dies after collapsing and losing consciousness at Arctic penal colony, prison authorities say.
Prison service says the Putin critic collapsed and lost consciousness after a walk in a remote penal colony.
Serving a prison sentence for killing 77 people in 2011, Breivik has access to a kitchen, fitness room and TV with Xbox.
