Arkady Gostev, head of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service, was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for creating a network of torture chambers in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) announced on June 19.

A Russian court has sentenced pro-war activist Sergei Udaltsov to six years in prison for justifying terrorism.

LONDON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent was sentenced Friday to an additional 19 years behind bars on extremism charges. A Russian judge delivered the guilty verdict and sentencing in the closed-door trial against Alexey ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A 73-year-old American jailed by Russia as a mercenary for Ukraine protested his innocence when his U.S.-based legal team and family finally tracked him down in April, months after he vanished into the vast Russian prison system, they said.

The Belarusian state has freed hundreds of people considered political prisoners in a bid to improve ties with the West. Among those still behind bars are some 200 convicted of fighting on Ukraine’s side,

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in a maximum-security prison. The