Countries must protect people in detention from the COVID-19 pandemic by releasing vulnerable prisoners, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Wednesday.

Here are the latest coronavirus updates from around the world.

Canadian judges are increasingly citing the new coronavirus in their decisions to release detainees accused of serious crimes.

Indonesia is set to release about 30,000 prisoners early as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to avoid a possible surge in coronavirus infections in its overcrowded prisons.

Kenyan courts are using Skype calls to pass judgments and verdicts folllowing an increase in coronavirus cases in the country.

Nigeria will grant amnesty to around 2,600 prisoners to ease congestion in the country's jails as authorities battle to halt the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Thursday.

The legal amendment will halve the sentence issued to inmates, except for terror, narcotics and sex offenders

Interior of Penitentiary Unit No. 9 in La Plata, south of Buenos Aires.AFPJustice in the province of Buenos Aires, the largest and most populous in Argentina, has ordered the house arrest of 800 priso