Former prisoners accuse the men of abuse in detention centres and want to see them brought to trial.

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Jailed Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer says he is going into exile after two decades of political persecution - Copyright AFP KEMAL ASLAN Jailed Cuban ...

Prominent Russian rights activists said Monday that torture is widely used in a northern penal colony, citing fresh allegations after claims from a jailed opposition member serving a sentence there.

In a new report, three human rights organizations that advocate for the rights of Palestinians kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces detailed the horrific conditions and brutal torture ...

IRKUTSK, Russia -- A court in the Siberian city of Irkutsk has sentenced a former prison warden and two of his associates to five years in prison each on an abuse-of-office charge in a high-profile ...

Hundreds of inmates took control of a prison in western Venezuela on Sunday, claiming they were tortured and demanding its director be fired. Large columns of smoke from burning mattresses and sheets ...