A new report has shown that Australia’s imprisonment rate has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2000 and is above all Western European countries and Canada, yet instead of reducing crime, it has only led to higher rates of reoffending. Australia now imprisons more people than at any time since 1900, costing taxpayers over $3.6…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is marking the four-year anniversary of the detention in Russia of American businessman Paul Whelan, whose continued imprisonment is one of several major irritants in tattered relations between Washington and Moscow. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday that securing Whelan’s release remains a top administration priority. U.S. officials…

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued to persecute Falun Gong practitioners nationwide in the months before the CCP’s 20th national congress. At least 47 Falun Gong practitioners in China were imprisoned for their belief in September 2022, and nearly 2,000 were arrested or threatened, and their homes were raided by local police in July…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Two suspects in the slaying a year ago of Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries have been arrested overseas, prosecutors in the Netherlands announced Tuesday, a day after the suspected “director” of the shocking killing was detained. The national prosecutor’s office said a 27-year-old man was arrested on the former Dutch Caribbean…

BERLIN—A German court sentenced a man to life in prison for ploughing his car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen last year, injuring dozens, including 20 children, tagesschau.de reported on Thursday. The local man, now 31 years old, was accused of having deliberately steered his car into a large group…

A judge has warned protesters who disrupt people’s lives they “will face serious consequences” as he jailed a former Paralympic athlete who superglued himself to the roof of a British Airways plane. Judge Gregory Perrins said Extinction Rebellion activist James Brown, 56, who has been registered blind since birth, “cynically used” his disability and put…