#prisoners

Myanmar on Saturday released student leaders held in the country`s largest crackdown on dissent since the end of ...

Somali pirates seizing Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage deaths in 2011, a report showed on ...

Myanmar`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced in Britain on Tuesday that she was prepared to take the helm as ...

Myanmar`s government is planning to free more political prisoners as early as next month, a minister said Monday in ...

Fifty international NGOs and United Nations agencies on Thursday called on Israel to lift its Gaza blockade, first ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Saturday he is ready for a dialogue with Israel if it frees Palestinian ...

Fifty-eight people convicted and sentenced to death in narcotics cases are awaiting execution in Indonesian prisons. ...

Israel must free all Palestinians held without charges under so called "administrative detention" orders or give them ...

The Indonesian government must provide an explanation for President Yudhoyono's decision to cut the sentence of ...

The remains of 12 South Korean soldiers killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 war were brought home Friday -- the ...

The decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to cut the sentence of Australian marijuana smuggler Schapelle ...

The granting of a five-year clemency for an Australian drug convict Chapelle Leigh Corby is something of an oddity, ...

Member of the House of Representatives Commission III Aboebakar Alhabsyi questioned the motives of Indonesian ...

The Indonesian government said the clemency granted to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was merely based on ...

G8 leaders on Saturday praised the "remarkable efforts" of President Thein Sein and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu ...