Sednaya prison, often referred to as the "human slaughterhouse," stands as one of the most secretive and horrifying detention ...

Many families knew little of their jailed relatives’ fate and rights groups say torture was widespread under the Assad regime ...

Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, ...

All across Syria, families wept as they were reunited with children, siblings, spouses and parents who vanished years ago ...

Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Justice Jackson’s Imaginary Equal Protection Clause theory reimagines that the law must ...

Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current ...

Moscow's Gulag History Museum has closed, and, throughout Russia, statues of Stalin are multiplying as the Kremlin seeks to ...

Harvey Weinstein’s legal team filed court documents Tuesday alleging that Rikers Island, the notorious New York jail where he’s awaiting a new trial on rape charges, has been medically neglecting him ...

Ansari, compared the Rikers Island facility to “a gulag where the prisoners are treated like animals.” “When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb ...

He described the conditions as "hardly sanitary" for someone with Weinstein’s severe medical issues, comparing them to a “gulag.” Harvey Weinstein has been incarcerated at Rikers Island ...

Nestled in the countryside of Maryland, in the Catoctin Mountain Park, is the presidential country retreat known as Camp David. The first parts of the complex were built by the Works Progress ...

Addressing a commemoration at a memorial to the victims of Gulag in Budapest, he said that “freight carriages packed with people being sent in one direction or another” had been made possible by ...