Venezuela’s government released six detained Americans after President Nicolás Maduro met an adviser for President Donald ...

USA TODAY has been covering Tarrio and Rhodes ... “There are a lot of people talking about how he and others were political prisoners that were persecuted, and how Trump has righted this wrong ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad ...

Senior US administration officials, who previewed the announcement on the condition of anonymity, said “many dozens” of political prisoners and others considered by the US to be unjustly ...

Cuba said Tuesday it would release 553 prisoners in response to Washington ... but rights groups and the US embassy say the figure is closer to 1,000. Some have already been freed after serving ...

said that for the last several years he had carried messages from Pope Francis to the presidents of the United States and Cuba “seeking the release of prisoners in Cuba and improved ...

Just two weeks ago, Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president ...