USA

US: Ex-Volkswagen executive imprisoned over emissions scandal

Oliver Schmidt is the second to be jailed in the US over the diesel emissions scandal.

7 December 2017

United Arab Emirates

Indecency charges against Briton Jamie Harron dropped after intervention by the prime minister and ruler of Dubai

The charges gainst a 27-year-old Scot, accused of indecency for allegedly touching a man's hip in a bar in Dubai have been dropped

23 October 2017

Spain

Two Catalan separatists are jailed

Madrid hardens its stance towards Catalonia and jails two separatists pending sedition investigation

17 October 2017

Turkey

Turkey issues more coup arrest warrants

Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 115 people across 15 provinces over alleged links to last year's failed coup attempt, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday.

13 October 2017

United Kingdom

The prisoners changing their lives through art

Art is not always where you might expect to find it.

28 September 2017

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A night behind bars

17 August 2017

USA

Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard in jailbreak

Inmates at an Alabama prison escaped after fooling a new guard by obscuring door numbers with peanut butter

1 August 2017

World News

Former Peruvian President jailed

Ollanta Humala, President of Peru until 2016, has been jailed along with his wife amidst concerns that they might flee the country ahead of their trial on money laundering charges.

14 July 2017

World News

Where in the EU are prisoner numbers falling fastest?

Scandinavian states are driving a general downward across the bloc.

10 July 2017

Italy

Mafia boss 'entitled to a dignified death'

5 June 2017

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West Bank clashes

Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday (May 19) during demonstrations in support of Palestinian inmates on hunger strike in Israeli…

20 May 2017

USA

Chelsea Manning is free

Chelsea Manning, the US Army private sentenced to 35-years in jail for leaking military files, has been released from military jail.

17 May 2017

Italy

Costa Concordia verdict due

Italy's highest court is due to give a verdict in the case of the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives.

12 May 2017

USA

Alanis Morissette's ex-manager jailed for stealing millions from singer

A former business manager for Alanis Morissette who stole over seven million dollars (6.

4 May 2017

Europe

Insiders: Living with Terror

Insiders takes an in-depth look at how Europe is responding to the threat of terrorist attacks.

28 April 2017

Europe

Fighting extremism - in and out of prison

Usman Raja is a cage fighting coach.

28 April 2017

Europe

Insiders: Living with the threat of terror

Sophie Claudet speaks to former French intelligence official,Louis Caprioli about what can be done to combat radicalisation in prisons.

28 April 2017

Venezuela

'There is no future here' - Venezuelans stage mass sit-ins

Mass sit-ins in Venezuela, as anti-government protesters keep up the pressure for early elections.

24 April 2017

Tunisia

Questions over detention of Tunisians in Libya

Tamim Jaboudi is nearly three-years-old.

21 April 2017

South Korea

South Korea's ousted president charged with bribery

Prosecutors in South Korea have charged ousted president Park Geun-hye and Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin with bribery. It is the latest twist to a corruption scandal that rocked the country for m

17 April 2017