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Indonesian authorities are set to return an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country, ...

Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...

A man accused in the explosives attack on former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an election campaign denied his murder intent Tuesday as his trial opened at a court in western Japan ...

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When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from transferring a transgender inmate to a male facility, citing legal ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Thursday.

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in ...