Sakharov prize winner was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony in Belarus in 2021 ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with fear and anguish that still haunt her. She nearly lost parental rights ...

Two Ukrainian prisoners of war have each been sentenced to 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony by the Southern District ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski was released Saturday after more than four years in a Belarusian prison ...

A lovesick American has been sentenced to five years in a brutal Russian penal colony after sailing his yacht to the country with a rifle on board in a doomed 11-month plot to meet a woman he met ...

The guerrilla war is over in Colombia and that's opening up some formerly off-limits places for tourism, including an island that formerly housed... Colombian Former Penal Colony Now Taking Tourists ...

A former senior Russian defence official has been handed a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted on multiple corruption-related charges. The ruling highlights ongoing scrutiny of financial ...

Yulia Navalnaya claims her husband, Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, was poisoned while imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony. Independent labs in two countries analyzed smuggled biological ...