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Iran Sentences Four Protesters to Death, Including First Woman

Rights groups warn the opaque security courts rely on coerced confessions.

Kazakhstan Convicts 19 Over Xinjiang Protest With 11 Given Five-Year Terms

DOJ Opens $40 Million Claims Process for OneCoin Fraud Victims

Justice Department Launches National Fraud Enforcement Division

Santa Cruz, Watsonville Move to Block State Plan to House Sexually Violent Predator in Motels

DOJ Secures ACA Fraud Guilty Plea, Says Task Force Recovered $500 Million in Three Cases

Mesa Police Release Timeline After Eric Baker’s In-Custody Death During Bike Stop

Cuba Begins Releasing 2,010 Prisoners in Holy Week Pardon

DeSantis Signs 'Missy’s Law' and Stiffer Child-Exploitation Penalties, Urges Judge’s Impeachment

Handcuffed Woman Who Slipped Out of Police Cruiser Window Is Back in Custody

DOJ Dropped 23,000 Cases as Immigration Prosecutions Soared, ProPublica Finds

Texas Prison Heat Trial Opens With Clash Over Deaths and Air-Conditioning Plan

Rikers Detainee Dies After Hospital Transfer in Second Death This Week

Nepal Arrests Ex-PM Oli as New Government Acts on Deadly Protest Crackdown

Justice Department Opens Civil-Rights Probes Into Transgender Housing in California and Maine Women’s Prisons

Federal Reserve Urges Judge to Keep Powell Subpoenas Quashed After DOJ Admits No Evidence

Florida Opens Civil Probe Into Discord, Citing Child-Predator Cases

HRW Alleges El Salvador Is Disappearing U.S. Deportees in Incommunicado Detention

Michoacán to Send UN Report on Bernardo Bravo Case, Citing Arrest of Alleged Crime Cell Leader

Tokyo Police Arrest Seven in ¥423 Million Ueno Suitcase Heist