The government of Fiji has reacted angrily to the country's depiction in an undercover investigation that led to the resignation of MP Patrick Mercer.

The American government publicly upbraided their Egyptian counterparts today after a court delivered jail sentences to 43 non-profit workers arrested during a high profile crackdown on rights and democracy groups.

Magistrate Daniel Thulare says behaviour of media outlets could be interpreted as contempt of court

It is their intention to show he was acting out of a sense of duty in the hope of alerting Americans to what was being done in their names in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

The Independent has seen a defiant letter smuggled out of jail by a man who pines for democracy

A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering another teenager by stabbing him to death after he went to a housing estate to try to retrieve a stolen mobile phone.

The dancer who claims a former Coronation Street actor sexually abused him when he was a schoolboy broke down in tears in court today after he was accused of making up a “malicious lie”.

Jamie Reynolds has yet to enter a plea to the 17-year-old's murder

Date set for trial to begin on 17 August

Commission’s failure  to stop abuse of system by Cup Trust branded ‘unacceptable’ by MPs

Two children at a privately-run Young Offenders Institution had their arms broken by staff last year during routine strip searches, a report by the Prison Inspectorate has revealed.

Russia began a second bid to convict the suspected killers of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya at a pre-trial hearing on Monday, but her family said the question of who ordered the murder was unlikely to emerge from the case.

Brian Wood has battled for decades to hold the global arms trade to account. Now, a historic treaty is being signed

PM also sends 'deepest condolences to the friends and family of Drummer Lee Rigby'