The largest country of these, Russia (155 million), became a huge ... and many were sent to prison camps in Siberia. Many never returned. They were put in the regular prison population with ...

THE global female prison population is growing at a faster rate than that of men. While women still represent a smaller percentage of the total prison population in most countries, at the global ...

WASHINGTON — American school teacher Marc Fogel has been released by Russia after more than three years in custody, following an arrest for medical marijuana possession, as part of an agreement ...

A picture of Vlad, who was abducted from the Kharkiv region of Ukraine and taken to Russia, where he has been held in various prisons. (Fabian Ritter/DOCKS Collective) Thousands of Ukrainians have ...

Three lawyers for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison camp just under a year ago, were sentenced to prison Friday, highlighting the risks of having any ties to ...

Who still dares to protest the war in Russia? Women. They hold up signs, lay flowers, hide messages in books and write to political prisoners. DER SPIEGEL spent months following three of them.

The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison. President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in ...

Irkutsk is in fact the dam that holds and controls this huge expanse of water, uniting parts of the whole of Siberia in a special version of the ‘one indivisible Russia’. The Irkutsk ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

Pennsylvania teacher Marc Fogel, who was sentenced to 14 years in a Russian prison after being arrested with what he claimed was legally prescribed marijuana, has been freed and is heading back to ...

Navalny’s correspondence from a prison colony in Petushki, where he spent time before being transferred to Siberia, to his allies in Russia and ... are pregnant women needing rides to the ...