More than 80,000 people have signed an Internet petition to President Dmitri A. Medvedev demanding the release of a jailed pregnant lawyer.

Former President Chen Shui-bian was taken from his jail cell to a hospital on Sunday when a doctor found he had an irregular heartbeat after a five-day hunger strike.

Released after years of detention without charge, former prisoners return home to find themselves stigmatized and shunned, viewed either as terrorist or United States spies.

A judge in Taipei ruled that former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian be held in jail while prosecutors in the city pursue money-laundering and corruption charges against him.

Myanmar’s military leadership continued its crackdown on dissent, handing down prison sentences of 65 years to 14 dozen pro-democracy activists.

Myanmar’s military leadership continued its crackdown on dissent, handing down prison sentences of 65 years to 14 dozen pro-democracy activists.

Robin Oggins’s urge to know a fuller account of the redacted chapters of his father’s life propel him toward the center of a lingering cold war mystery.

There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.

The Saudi government is trying to rehabilitate violent Islamists by addressing their psychological needs. Could therapy be the best sort of counterterrorism?

The documents are central to the prisoner’s claim that he falsely confessed to the bomb plot only after being tortured in Morocco at the direction of the United States.