Prison

Myanmar female prisoners face torture and neglect, rights group says

Prison authorities beat some prisoners with sticks, chains, metal pipes, and slingshots, with some subjected to electric shocks and cigarette burns, according to Human Rights Watch.

A police official stands guard in front of Insein Prison during an annual amnesty to mark Myanmar's independence day in Yangon on January 4, 2026.
Prison guards of the Israel Prison Service seen at the Givon Prison in the city of Ramla, central Israel, January 11, 2026

Court bars solitary confinement for Agam Tsarafi, rebukes IPS over prison video

A man walks inside the Adra prison in the town of Adra on the northeast outskirts of Damascus on December 16, 2024.

Assad-era Syrian official convicted of torture, jailed for 60 years by US court

A man drives a Careem taxi car in Mosul, Iraq.

Israeli-Canadian Benjamin Hassin freed after 11 years in Iraqi prison


Couple who robbed elderly neighbor after meeting in bomb shelter sentenced to prison

According to their indictment, 25-year-old Asil Nassar and her partner at the time, 26-year-old Miar Heiv, began to grow close to their neighbor during the war.

 Woman in handcuffs, illustrative.

Haredi protesters, IDF soldiers clash outside of Military Prison 10 amid draft dodging controversy

The protesters were acting violently, according to the military, and they entered a restricted military area before being forcibly removed. 

(Illustrative) Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest outside the Military Prison near Kfar Yona, central Israel, against the jailing of yeshiva student Shimon Biton for failing to comply with an Israeli military recruitment order, July 8, 2026.

At least 25 dead, 100 injured in clashes between prisoner groups at Sri Lanka jail, sources say

"The military has been requested to provide support to the police, but at the moment they are on standby," Sri Lankan Army Spokesman Brigadier Waruna Gamage told Reuters.

Prisoners board a bus to be transferred to another prison following clashes between two groups of inmates at Negombo Prison in the coastal town of Negombo, Sri Lanka, July 6, 2026.

Released from Iranian prison after 804 days, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert has a message for Iran

After attending a conference in Tehran in 2018, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested under false espionage charges and sent to both IRGC and public Iranian prisons. This is her story.

Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert speaks out on her 804 days in Iranian prisons, after being arrested in 2018 in Tehran.

October 7 trials: How Israel is preparing for the largest terror prosecution in its history

LEGAL AFFAIRS: Israel now needs to build an entire temporary justice system around a crime that cannot be reduced to a single file, defendant, scene, or legal theory.

Nukhba Force terrorists who were captured alive on October 7 are seen in a prison in Israel in 2025.

Iranian political prisoner accused of conspiring with Israel brutally beaten in prison

He was left with broken ribs, broken hands, and facial injuries after he was attacked in Qazvin Central Prison in Iran, human rights groups said on Wednesday, sharing images of the injuries.

Mohammad Reza Morad Bahrouzi was beaten in an Israeli prison over alleged communication with oppostiion groups or groups affiliated with Israel.

Public Defender warns of deepening prison crisis, expanded enforcement powers

Regarding the expansion of police enforcement, the Public Defender’s Office cited a legislative proposal to designate criminal organizations as terrorist organizations.

Prisoners at the Givon Prison in the city of Ramla, central Israel, January 11, 2026.

Iranian activist, two-year-old daughter, sent to Evin Prison, human rights group says

Khanbeigi was ordered to return to the prison, known for mass human rights violations, after being given leave from her sentence to give birth to Lalehzari.

POLITICAL ACTIVIST Rezvaneh Ahmad Khanbeigi and her two-year-old daughter.

'Terrorist' vs 'Judeo-Nazi': MKs trade barbs over bill barring Red Cross from Israeli prisons

The bill was drafted by Galit Distel Atbaryan, Keti Shitrit, and a group of additional lawmakers. Thirty-six MKs voted in favor of the bill, while 41 opposed it, and it was removed from the agenda.

MK GALIT Distel Atbaryan leads the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026.

Saudi doctor given life sentence for deadly car rampage on German Christmas market

A German court handed down a life sentence in a Christmas market attack that shocked the country and fueled debate over immigration ahead of national elections.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visit the site where a car drove into a crowd of a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.