Denied parole, the Indigenous activist continues to serve a decades-long sentence. His family shares the repercussions.
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Denied parole, the Indigenous activist continues to serve a decades-long sentence. His family shares the repercussions.
Since October 7, Palestinians held by Israel have described horrific treatment in military detention centres.
Both military detention centres, notorious for human rights abuses, were established with the same sense of impunity.
Government accused of jailing environmentalists in a bid to ‘muzzle criticism’.
The detainees endured ‘almost daily torture’, claims al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya.
After a quarter-century behind bars, Brandon Jackson is fighting back against Louisiana’s last Jim Crow law.
Pro-independence leader Christian Tein among seven flown to the mainland after last month’s large-scale riots.
A rehabilitation programme is using ‘equine therapy’ to break the cycle of crime and ease overcrowding in prisons.
Former prisoners who suffered in US detention facilities say Israeli abuse of Palestinians follows the same patterns.
Sentence expands list of US citizens detained in Russia as Moscow says awaiting response on prisoner swap proposals.
Several assailants, reportedly linked to ISIL, killed in operation to rescue two guards at Rostov detention centre.
Activists and rights groups say Nigeria’s vague cybercrime laws are used to silence journalists and ordinary citizens.
Aboriginal people make up a third of all people in Australian prisons, but The Torch is working to change that.
Elmer Fernandez’s killing comes after an emergency was declared in February to curb a surge in prison violence.