President Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, an imprisoned Native American rights activist, using his ...

The treatment of prisoners reflects the moral fabric of any society. Recent news of prisoner abuse in Syria and Israel has brought this critical issue to the forefront, highlighting the urgent need ...

Rights groups expressed worry Tuesday that President Donald Trump's reinstatement of Cuba on a US terror list could halt the release of "political prisoners" that started just last week under a deal ...

Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden ...

Israel is expected on Sunday to begin releasing more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, according to the terms of the ...

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto is considering pardons for prisoners linked to armed organisations in the restive ...

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus ...

The first hostages freed from Gaza under a long-awaited ceasefire agreement are back in Israel, and desperately needed aid is ...

Honestly, my feelings are indescribable,” Boshara Amro, 21, told NBC News after her sister Jeneen was released.

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners to cheering crowds in the West Bank after Hamas returned three hostages that were being held in Gaza.

The settlement comes over a decade after the first concerns were raised publicly about the sheriff’s department’s confidential informant program, which investigators found broke multiple laws.

Moments before he left office and as one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard ...