Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now age 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home — to North Korea. Born in the South, where he ...
A small but growing army of often elderly men and women regularly swing South Korean banners and scream outrage at the jailing of a woman they consider their spiritual mother: disgraced former President Park Geun-hye. They lash out against politicians, judges and a government they ...
A ceremony was held in Cowra, Australia, on Saturday to commemorate those who died during a breakout of Japanese prisoners from a WWII detention camp 73 years ago. In the early hours of Aug. 5, 1944, a group of 1,104 Japanese POWs attempted to escape ...
Former American football star O.J. Simpson has spent nearly nine years in prison. Not for the grisly 1994 murders of his ex-wife and a male companion — he was famously acquitted in that case. No, Simpson has been behind bars for his role in a September ...
Ollanta Humala, Peru's former left-leaning president who was ordered to spend 18 months in pre-trial detention, on Friday was moved to a prison built for his longtime foe, the ex-autocratic leader Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori, 78, has spent the past decade as the lone inmate in ...
During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square prodemocracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China's best known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, declared: "We have no enemies." When being tried in 2009 on charges of inciting subversion ...
Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday. The Shenyang legal bureau said in a brief statement on its website that Liu had suffered ...
The Chinese hospital treating cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo offered a grim update on his health Wednesday, but human rights groups cautioned that the authorities may be manipulating the medical reports. The 61-year-old democracy advocate's liver function continued to deteriorate and he suffered from "shock ...
The United States urged China on Tuesday to give cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife freedom to move and choose his own doctors after he was granted medical parole. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it was "working to gather more ...
China just sent a clear message to casinos sprouting across Asia: don't peddle your baccarat here. A Shanghai court on Monday convicted 19 Crown Resorts Ltd. current and former staff of illegally promoting gambling on the mainland, handing out prison sentences of as long as ...
China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last month, his lawyer said Monday. Liu, who had about three years of his 11-year sentence to serve, was diagnosed on May 23 and was ...
Australia is to build its first prison aimed at isolating militants and stopping the spread of radical beliefs through the prison system as part of efforts to eliminate terrorism, the premier of New South Wales state said Sunday. The unit will be within a maximum-security ...
