Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women ...

When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document ...

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists ...

The British government has agreed to pay a substantial sum to settle a lawsuit by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo Bay detainee.

The UK government has paid "substantial" compensation to a man who was tortured by the CIA and remains imprisoned without ...

An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.

Evoking memories of the US assault on Panama in 1989, the manoeuvre is being described as the fastest regime change in ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy not only delivers multiple twists in the end, but it also brings closure to Smiley's character.

A trickle of political prisoners from the notorious Helicoide detention center in Caracas were released, and former inmates ...

As Venezuela’s interim authorities began to release political prisoners, some of their families raced to the notorious prison ...

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The US Navy's P-8 Poseidon was seen doing several rounds over Tijuana, a drug-smuggling hub in Mexico. This flight comes ...