Due to conflicting efforts by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Richard Grenell, the Trump administration ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Monday killed 71 people, according to Mizan, the news outlet of the Iranian judiciary.

Israel’s attack on a notorious prison killed 71, Iran said Iranian state news media reported yesterday that 71 people were killed when Israel attacked Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23.

Guyana has pledged to crack down on gold smuggled across the border from neighboring Venezuela at the urging of the U.S. government. President Irfaan Ali said late Friday that the government of ...

Eighty-two year-old poet and activist Aníbal Isturdes finds in the trees of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, a constant source of inspiration for both his verses and the literary workshop he leads every ...

A Yankton man serving a prison sentence for manslaughter has been indicted on charges connected to a recent prison riot, the state attorney general’s (AG) office announced this week.

In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...

Former corrections officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and 10th individuals charged in connection with alleged sexual abuse at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin.

A former Venezuelan spymaster pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges — including narco-terrorism -- a week before his trial was set to begin in a Manhattan federal court.

Ecuadorian authorities announced the capture of the leader of the notorious Los Choneros drug gang after 18 months on the run following a prison break that unleashed ...