Venezuela's "El Helicoide" was built back in the days of seemingly endless oil wealth and meant to be a flashy, ...

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Former political prisoners tell DW that winter in Belarus prisons is brutal during cold, snowy winters like this one — ...

Hackers who reportedly leaked the videos call themselves "the Justice of Ali." Former inmates at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison described a climate of systematic brutality and regular punishment dished ...

A Yemeni man Ali Hassan Ali who spent more than two years in detention in secret prisons seeks justice.

Dozens of Venezuelan men, locked up in immigration detention centers in the United States, were abruptly flown to El Salvador in the middle of the night, shackled and gang-walked to a brutal ...

B’Tselem’s latest report sounds alarm on abuse, dozens of deaths of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

The family of a Gloucestershire man who has been in prison for 16 years after initially being given a two-and-a-half year sentence are appealing to parliament for his release. Rob Russell, from the ...

Mahmoud Abu Foul heard his mother’s voice after eight months in Israeli detention, but could not see her face. A 28-year-old from northern Gaza, Abu Foul was arrested from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit ...