Young Turks, in particular, are increasingly looking for an alternative to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule.

The 2025 Goethe Medal goes to philanthropist and activist Osman Kavala from Turkey, as well as Chinese linguist, Li Yuan, and Belgian archaeologist, David Van Reybrouck.

The allegations include several high-profile figures, prompting institutions to cut ties and launch internal investigations.

The foreigners appear to be mostly arrested on charges of being affiliated with ISIS or being members of families of ISIS ...

The prisoners included those affiliated with Islamic State and those convicted of common crimes, according to an Iraqi ...

Human rights activists say female political prisoners in Belarus are often singled out for abuse and humiliation, threatened ...

Alsu Kurmasheva was jailed in a Russian prison on false charges. Separated from her family with no end in sight, she turned ...

While Damascus hails the emptying of Assad regime prisons, detainees arrested for opposing Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ...

This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th. Meet Candice and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have ...

The investigators at How to Survive rank six of the world’s most dangerous women’s prisons and their brutal conditions.

The Human Rights Association (İHD) has recorded at least 26,632 rights violations in Turkey's prisons during 2024, according to its latest report monitoring conditions across the country’s ...

Ghislaine Maxwell joined other notorious celebrities who are housed at a women's prison camp north of Houston.