Yemen’s Houthis, Saudi Arabia Exchange Hundreds of Prisoners The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that Yemen's Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia agreed to exchange about 900 prisoners over the next three days, adding that 318 detainees had already flown between the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, and government-held Aden, as peace ta... Yemen
Aide: Jailed Putin Critic Navalny's Illness May Be Slow Poisoning Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with severe stomach pain in jail, which his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, claims could be the result of slow-acting poison.... Russia
US Panel Votes to Expand Compassionate Release for Prisoners On Wednesday, the US Sentencing Commission approved new guidelines that will expand inmates' ability to qualify for compassionate release from federal prison.... Verdicts & sentences
Amnesty: El Salvador Committing Human Rights Abuses in Gang Purge Amnesty International on Monday published a new report alleging that El Salvador's authorities have committed systematic human rights abuses since a state of emergency was declared last year.... Prisons and prisoners
S.Korea Publishes Report of North's Alleged Human Rights Abuses On Thursday, South Korea's Unification Ministry released a 450-page report detailing North Korea's alleged human rights abuses, including the public execution of teenagers, pregnant women, and homosexuals.... China
Robert Kennedy's Assassin Denied Parole For 16th Time On Wednesday, Sirhan Sirhan, serving a life sentence for assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole for the 16th time despite a review board recommending he walk free in 2021.... Jordan
Two Pakistani Citizens Released from Guantanamo After 20 Years US officials returned two Pakistani brothers to Pakistan on Thursday after detaining them at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades without charging them.... Pakistan
Nicaragua Frees Hundreds of Prisoners, Deports Them to US Nicaragua's government on Thursday freed 222 dissident prisoners and deported them to the US in an unexpected operation that reportedly came as they were stripped of their political rights and citizenship after being declared 'traitors.'... Nicaragua
Guantánamo Detainee Freed to Belize Majid Khan, a former al-Qaeda courier turned US government witness, has been transferred from the US-run detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Belize, nearly a year after he finished his sentence Military bases & personnel
Iran Agrees to Pardon 'Tens of Thousands' of Prisoners Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to 'pardon or commute' the sentences of tens of thousands of prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, state media reported on Sunday.... Iran
Texas Inmates Continue Hunger Strike Prison inmates across Texas have entered their second week of a hunger strike in protest of the use of solitary confinement Education