Current human rights laws simply fail to protect these captives.

Navalny, 47, and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most visible critics, was serving a 19-year sentence in an Arctic penal colony, considered one of the world’s toughest jails. Navalny’s ...

Russia's prison population has decreased by more than 180,000 inmates over five years, a decline partly driven by Moscow's recruitment of prisoners to fight in Ukraine, the head of the country's ...