Russia's prison population has plummeted as it continues to rely on inmates to plug its manpower gaps.

Two Russian women, who reportedly tricked hundreds of Cubans into coming to Russia under false pretenses, have allegedly been sent to the front lines in Ukraine. Olga Shilyayeva, 41, a part-time ...

If Maria Alyokhina hadn’t escaped from Russia disguised as a food courier, she would be in jail right now. The Pussy Riot activist knows from experience how tough life can be for political prisoners ...

Ukrainian soldier Serhii Hryhoriev said this so often during brief phone calls from the front that his wife and two daughters took it to heart. His younger daughter, Oksana, tattooed the phrase on her ...

Since 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared hundreds of civilians in secret prisons across Mali, according to a joint investigation published on June 12 by ...

Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said.

A portrait of Serhii Hryhoriev, a Ukrainian prisoner of war who died in Russia, is seen next to his grave in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — “Everything ...