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The media tycoon, who is accused of masterminding pro-democracy protests, testified at his trial for the first time. He could be sent to prison for life. Jimmy Lai, the Hong [...]

The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years. Anywhere else, it wouldn't have [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy leaders, the city's most prominent activists among them, to prison terms of up to 10 years. None received [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina, Natalia Abbakumova Ilya Yashin, one of the Russian political prisoners freed in Thursday's historic swap, said he was taken out of Russia against his will and wanted [...]

Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile. Ilya Yashin, one of […]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Alsu Kurmasheva is a talker, her voice a familiar companion in her native Tatarstan, where her news reports were once beamed from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's headquarters [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia The dateline on the columns by the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary was, and still is, jarring: âPRETRIAL DETENTION CENTER NO. 5, MOSCOW.â In this surreal [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina Russia sentenced a playwright and a theater director to six years in prison Monday on charges of 'justifying terrorism' over an award-winning play. The decision was the [...]

Huang Xueqin, a journalist, and Wang Jianbing, a labor activist, were convicted of subversion, a vaguely worded charge long seen as a tool for muzzling dissent. A court in southern [...]

As part of China's crackdown on even peaceful dissent, a court in Hong Kong convicted 14 people, who now face prison time along with dozens of others. Dozens of Hong [...]

Byline: Spencer S. Hsu A 30-year-old antiabortion activist who kept fetuses in a Capitol Hill home was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in prison for illegally blockading a reproductive [...]

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Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir V. Putin's Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, [...]

The Supreme Court is expected to confront three major cases that could shape the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump and drastically affect his criminal case on federal election subversion [...]

Marina Ovsyannikova, who worked for state TV for two decades before protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was sentenced to more than eight years. A former Russian state television journalist who [...]

The new extremism charges could add decades to the prison terms that Aleksei Navalny is already serving. A new trial of Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia's jailed opposition leader, began on [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon RIGA, Latvia - Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was put on trial Monday on extremism charges that could result in his existing prison sentences extended [...]

Byline: Theodora Yu and Meaghan Tobin HONG KONG - In a rare bright spot for media freedom in Hong Kong, a panel of judges on the territory's top court unanimously [...]

Byline: Theodora Yu and Meaghan Tobin HONG KONG - In a rare bright spot for media freedom in Hong Kong, a panel of judges on the territory's top court unanimously [...]

It was a balmy 1:30 a.m. nearly a year ago in Shahin Shahr, a city in central Iran, and the rapper Toomaj Salehi was sitting on the roof of his [...]

Demonstrators battled with the police to protest a two-year prison sentence given to a leading opposition figure. At least nine people died in the confrontations. The government of Senegal said [...]

Roman Protasevich had been sentenced to eight years in prison. The details of his 2021 arrest drew international attention. Belarus has pardoned an opposition activist who was arrested in 2021 [...]

The activist Yang Maodong said he had only wanted China to ''fully realize authentic freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law.'' A court in southern China has sentenced one [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- A court in China has sentenced two of the country's leading human-rights activists to more than a decade in prison for subverting state [...]

Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were detained after organizing a small seaside gathering of activists to discuss human rights. Their lengthy sentences point to Beijing's intolerance of dissent. BEIJING -- [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd China has sentenced to prison two prominent human rights activists, each for more than a decade, after they organized a small private gathering, signaling the Chinese Communist [...]

Byline: Francesca Ebel As a Russian court on Thursday considered restricting the custody rights of a father whose 13-year-old daughter drew an antiwar picture in class, a young woman protested [...]

Aleksei Zakhvatov, the lawyer for Mr. Moskalyov, said in a statement on Telegram, a social messaging app, that his client was detained on Wednesday with the help of the Belarusian [...]

Rights activists worry that the separation of a teenage girl and her father after they criticized the war in Ukraine might signal a toughening of the crackdown on dissent. MOSCOW [...]

Byline: Leo Sands Saudi Arabia freed a 72-year-old U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned for the past 16 months over critical tweets about the country's government and crown prince, his [...]

Byline: Victoria Bisset A court in Hong Kong jailed three activists from a now-disbanded group best known for organizing annual candlelight vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. [...]

Forty-seven pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong have been accused of a conspiracy to commit subversion in a landmark political case. Many of the defendants have been in jail for nearly [...]

Byline: Theodora Yu - - - Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Eric Yan-Ho Lai as Eric Yan-o Lai. The article has been corrected. - [...]

Byline: Theodora Yu HONG KONG - The largest national security case to be heard in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed strict new controls on the territory will begin on Monday, [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina RIGA, Latvia - Soon after the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in October, a 19-year-old Russian student, Olesya Krivtsova, posted an Instagram story criticizing Russia's war in [...]

Byline: Max Stephens The British spy David Smith who passed information to Russia for money has appeared at the Old Bailey for sentencing. The 58-year-old former security guard at the [...]

Li Ming-che and his wife, who met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan last week, have sought to inspire others not to be intimidated into silence by Beijing. TAIPEI, Taiwan [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd Two prominent Chinese advocates for citizen rights and the rule of law in China were tried for subversion this week in what family members said was an [...]

The verdicts suggest that the government has not scaled back its crackdown on dissent, despite efforts to improve its image. CAIRO -- An Egyptian court sentenced three prominent human rights [...]

Hossam Bahgat avoided a prison term, receiving a relatively modest fine, in a verdict that appeared designed to intimidate dissidents without risking international opprobrium. CAIRO -- An Egyptian court on [...]

Byline: Niha Masih, Gerry Shih and Shams Irfan NEW DELHI - India's anti-terrorism agency Monday night arrested Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist in Indian-administered Kashmir, after hours-long raids [...]