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Byline: Robyn Dixon, Natalia Abbakumova Outside a Russian prison gate and stained concrete walls, a 14-year-old girl in a baggy beige sweater with her small dog on leash hugged her [...]

Among the hundreds of Russians jailed for criticizing the war in Ukraine, the death of Pavel Kushnir in detention has transformed him into an antiwar symbol. As a teenager, Pavel [...]

The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a young woman in police custody. A dissident rapper has [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS A Moscow court on Friday ordered a Russian journalist who covered the trials of late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny and other dissidents to remain in custody [...]

Byline: DASHA LITVINOVA; ASSOCIATED PRESS Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Monday that talks were under way shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned [...]

When lawyers representing Jimmy Lai, the British businessman who founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily - and who now sits in a Hong Kong prison cell as a result - [...]

Byline: Frances Vinall Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been sentenced to an additional 15 months in prison for 'spreading propaganda against the Islamic [...]

Byline: GRANT PECK; ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK -- Myanmar's imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is suffering from symptoms of low blood pressure including dizziness and loss of appetite, but [...]

Byline: MARK MACKINNON; Staff One of Vladimir Putin's most prominent political opponents said he was forewarned last year that he would be jailed if he remained in Russia, but decided [...]

A powerful Communist official ate a gold-encrusted steak in London. An activist who poked fun at the excess was sentenced to more than five years. This is a tale of [...]

Roman Protasevich, who organized protests against the authoritarian leader of Belarus, was arrested after the authorities forced a commercial flight to land in the capital. The Belarusian opposition activist who [...]

Byline: MARK MacKINNON; Staff LONDON -- In his closing statement to a Moscow court, just before he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his outspoken opposition to the [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- Called on to enter a plea at the start of Hong Kong's largest-ever national-security trial Monday, Leung Kwok-hung said he had nothing to [...]

Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Miriam Berger Iran hanged two men tied to anti-government protests on Saturday, continuing a trend of using capital punishment to suppress dissent. The government has also [...]

Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh Hamid Ghare-Hassanlou, 53, and his wife Farzaneh, 46, were on their way home from a cemetery near Karaj, some 30 miles west of Tehran, when they hit [...]

Byline: Victoria Bisset Toomaj Salehi is no stranger to controversy. Last year, the Iranian rapper was arrested for songs criticizing the government and denouncing those he described as apologists for [...]

The hunger-striking dissident Alaa Abd El Fattah escalated his protest this week when he stopped drinking water as a U.N. climate conference opened in Egypt. His family fears that he [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Annabelle Timsit BEIRUT - Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman last week to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, marking the longest Saudi sentence ever [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch BEIRUT -- Saudi Arabia quietly sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity last week, marking the longest sentence ever for a peaceful [...]

Political prisoners in Egypt live under constant uncertainty about how long they will be detained. So freedom often comes as a big, and welcome, surprise. CAIRO -- It was hot, [...]

The United Nations and human rights advocates criticized the transfer from house arrest, and urged the regime to free her and all other political prisoners. Myanmar's ousted civilian leader, Daw [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero and Katerina Ang Bolivia's former interim president, Jeanine Èüñez, was convicted late Friday of leading an alleged coup that deposed her left-wing predecessor, and she was [...]