As of February, 407,266 people are incarcerated in 403 prisons, which have a combined official capacity of 304,956, according to CİSST.

Momentum is finally building to address longstanding and systemic problems at Michigan’s only women’s prison as state lawmakers, local elected officials, and activists demand answers about mold, ...

Shamima Begum could be plotting to pay people smugglers to help her get back to Britain, astonishing texts from inside her camp claim. The nation's most famous former ISIS bride has been held in ...

Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday Turkey had agreed to take back Turkish citizens from among thousands of Islamic State detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria when camps and ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Mona Heydari, 17, was killed in a brutal honour killing after escaping her abusive marriage ...

From prison cells to clandestine sets, Mohammadi discusses Berlinale-premiered ‘Roya’, resistance, hope and why ‘cinema can’t ...

The arrest drew sharp condemnation from press freedom advocates, who described it as an attack on media independence and ...

Turkish authorities have arrested investigative journalist Alican Uludag, charging him with insulting the president.

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded by many of its supporters as a betrayal.

German men who joined the "Islamic State" group have been detained in Syria for years. But the recent fighting caused chaos ...

Iraq took in the detainees in an operation arranged with the United States after Kurdish forces retreated and shut down camps and prisons that had housed IS suspects for nearly a decade.

Dissident director Mahnaz Mohammadi on depicting Iran’s Evin Prison, where she spent time behind bars, in Berlin Film 'Roya.' ...