"The female prison population in Afghanistan overwhelmingly consists of individuals who are serving 5-to-15-year sentences for moral crimes," Gabriela Maj writes in Almond Garden: Portraits from the ...

A Republican California mayor is blaming Democratic policies for bringing theft and crime to neighborhoods and taking away many of his residents’ primary grocery store. "We have 103,000 people here in ...

It was late July 2023 when news began to circulate on social media: The Taliban were going to stone to death an unmarried couple for eloping. The story was repeated in several local media sources ...

When RowVaughn Wells arrived at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on an icy, gray Wednesday in Memphis, she was there to say goodbye to her son Tyre Nichols. He was dead. Killed. Beaten to death ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for “moral crimes” has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women’s rights might be reversed ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan ...

KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve ...

NPR's Ayesha Roscoe asks Washington Post reporter Bethonie Butler about the popularity of true crime stories and the ethics of the genre. True crime is all over TV, podcasts and social media. Right ...

NEW DELHI – Delhi’s shadowy alleys and rising crime rates provide the backdrop for Navid Daffuwala’s latest novel, In the Dark Alleys of Delhi: Savior or Menace? This gripping tale of crime, justice, ...

The media depiction of violent crime—and the men and women responsible for those crimes—tends towards the simplistic. We are offered narratives that fit with our immediate horrified response to a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's rights might be reversed with ...