Current human rights laws simply fail to protect these captives.

Most people think American prisons are the worst in the world, but they don’t come close to Russia’s. Behind the barbed wire and isolation of Russia’s penal colonies lies a system built on fear, ...

Disturbing, leaked footage has revealed the systematic torture, sexual abuse and degradation of prisoners inside a brutal Russian jail. The new video, which was obtained by an ex-prisoner and sent to ...

A former British soldier sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security Russian prison colony has told the BBC he feels ...