On Oct. 23, 2019, the Hong Kong government officially withdrew a proposed extradition bill that led to months of protests, ...

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN ...

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Palestinian women's rights activist, Joharah Baker, is among five women who are at the UN in New York this week to speak ...

A new 150-bed multi-classification women's prison to be built at Holtze by September 2028. New youth justice boot camps and bail facilities in Katherine and Tennant Creek. The existing Paperbark ...

Tougher punishments outside prison are being considered as part of ... whether current sentencing for crimes committed against women and girls fits the severity of the act and ask whether more ...

Navalny knew he would likely die in prison. In messages to his supporters posted on social media, Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, often struck a hopeful note about the future of his ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

Doctors, nurses and activists in Antigua and Barbuda are fighting a colonial-era law that largely bans abortions, igniting a ...

Can you imagine a world without prisons? In eight-episode series “A Better Place,” bowing at Mipcom, one city decides to do just that, closing down its correctional facilities and ...

It wasn’t. Within hours, he found himself locked into a 9-foot-square cell in Moscow’s notorious, high-security Lefortovo Prison, where Soviet-era political prisoners had been tortured.