Ex-US Marine Trevor Reed was serving a nine-year sentence in Russia after being convicted in 2019 of endangering the lives of two police officers, while Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was in US jail on drug charges.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet alleges that the government of President Alexander Lukashenko is carrying out violations of a "widespread and systematic nature".
Three staff members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights were arrested after meeting with foreign diplomats.
Detainee tells human rights organisation that Mansoor is held in solitary confinement and spends most of his time in the darkness.
Rights group says at least nine activists due to be freed have instead been moved to a ‘counselling’ facility in a UAE prison.
This is what life is like for a child of two political prisoners in Kashmir.
In the last few weeks, hundreds of Syrian families have learned from the regime that their missing relatives have been declared dead.
Myanmar's new President Htin Kyaw frees 83 political prisoners as part of celebrations of Myanmar New Year
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