Police officers stand near an empty defendant's cage in a courtroom in Moscow on March 11, 2013. The court postponed the trial of Sergei Magnitsky, a dead lawyer who accused law-enforcement authorities of massive corruption and whose case sparked a dispute between Washington and Moscow.

Oscar Pistorius awaits the start of court proceedings in the Pretoria Magistrates court on Feb. 19, 2013.

Shariah policemen speak to a student who was caught playing games in an Internet cafe during school hours in Banda Aceh, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The boy was given a morality lecture and forced onto a shariah patrol truck to be taken back to school, where he faced humiliation from other students and teachers.

A shariah policeman shows dominoes found in the bag of a boy who ran away after a patrol spotted him and a friend during school hours in Banda Aceh. The dominoes were thrown in the mud and police continued their patrol after unsuccessfully chasing the boys.

A young couple chat in the shade on a beach near Banda Aceh. Under shariah, it is a crime for an unmarried man and woman who are not related by blood to associate in an "isolated place."

Members of the Wilayatul Hisbah speak to a young couple after they were caught sitting too close to each other in an isolated place in Banda Aceh.

Winda Wahyuni kisses the hand of her husband, Ahmad Yasir Saputra, after they got married in a mosque in Banda Aceh. Winda and Ahmad Yasir, who met a year ago on Facebook, married in a religious ceremony in a local mosque. Dating on social networks has become increasingly popular in Aceh due to the restrictions that shariah places on unmarried men and women.

Winda Wahyuni, center, and husband Ahmad Yasir Saputra, left, pray during their wedding ceremony in a mosque in Banda Aceh.

A man is seen from inside a house in Banda Aceh that was destroyed in the 2004 tsunami. Some residents near the sea believe the tsunami that killed an estimated 130,000 people in Aceh province was a punishment from God for those who broke Islamic laws, and they fear it might happen again.

Boys and girls meet at a cultural event in Banda Aceh.

Muslim worshippers gather for an evening collective prayer outside a mosque in Banda Aceh.

Acehnese Protestants attend an early Christmas mass in their church in Banda Aceh. Although it is complicated to build a new Christian church in the predominantly Muslim province, Father Amrin Sihotang of HKBP Protestant church said his community has no problems with strict Islamic laws as long "as we follow the rules."

Young people relax at Ulhee Ilhue beach in Banda Aceh. The gates of the beach close every day at 6 p.m. to prevent people violating Islamic law. Asked about shariah police who often patrol the beach looking for violators, one of the youngsters said, "I don't like them. They simply disturb me."

Female members of the Wilayatul Hisbah enter a public park as they search for those violating shariah law during their patrol in Banda Aceh.

A female member of the Wilayatul Hisbah insists on inspecting the clothes of girls relaxing in a park in Banda Aceh.

Members of a punk band named Trotoar Chaos are shown in Banda Aceh. Although they say they have been punished and had their hair shaved in the past by police, the young musicians remain defiant and insist they will stay in Aceh. One of them commented on a 2011 incident in which he was punished after being caught among 65 other punks at a concert: "There is a big change after that. Now I want to fight more."

A member of the Wilayatul Hisbah tells a man he should stop eating his lunch and go to the mosque just before Friday prayers in Banda Aceh. Besides patrolling with their male colleagues every day looking for those who violate shariah, female police officers drive through the town just before Friday prayers urging businesses to close and demanding that men go to pray.

A Muslim family enjoys nice weather on a beach in Banda Aceh.

Activists and supporters of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front carry torches during a protest march to mark International Human Rights Day in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India on Dec. 10. A demonstration was held in Srinagar to protest against alleged human rights violations and a court verdict sentencing two Kashmiris to life imprisonment in Srinagar.

An exiled Tibetan Buddhist man prays during a rally to mark World Human Rights Day in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 10. Tibetans also mark Dec. 10 as the Nobel Peace Prize Day, the day the Dalai Lama received the Nobel peace prize in 1989.

Protesters march down 42nd street to the United Nations General Assembly Building in recognition of International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 in New York City. Chinese-occupied Tibet has witnessed over 90 Tibetans self-immolating themselves in protest to China since 2009. Tibetans, their supporters and human rights activists are calling for immediate action by the United Nations and world governments to pressure China to resolve the issue.

A member of the Sri Lanka's Movement for People's Struggle shouts slogans during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Dec. 10. Hundreds of protesters have marched in Sri Lanka's capital to demand information on two human rights activists who went missing one year ago while working in a former war zone.

An Indonesian student stands in front of burning tires during a protest to mark the International Human Rights Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 10. Dozens of students staged a rally demanding Indonesian government to solve past major human rights violations.

Indian policemen detain activists of Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League (JKPFL) during a protest to mark World Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 in Srinagar. Dozens of JKPFL activist attended a protest rally to protest against alleged gross human rights violations on Kashmiris by government forces.

A Pakistani woman holds picture of her missing son and another holds an identification card while they take part in a demonstration to mark World Human Rights Day in Islamabad, Pakistan on Dec. 10. Dozens of people filed cases demanding the whereabouts of their missing family members allegedly detained by the state's intelligence agency for their suspected link with militants.

Kosovar Albanians celebrate in Pristina after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia cleared the former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj of war crime charges on Nov. 29, 2012.

Supporters of Ramush Haradinaj celebrate in Pristina on Nov. 29, 2012 after he was acquitted of murder and torture.

Valentin Danilov, a Russian physicist convicted of spying for China, tries to warm his ear as he arrives in Novosibirsk, the home of his wife of 41 years, on Nov. 26, 2012, two days after he was released on parole.

Danilov looks out of a window as he sits in a compartment inside a train carriage before leaving Krasnoyarsk for Novosibirsk on Nov. 25, 2012.

War veterans celebrate during the live broadcast from the International War Crimes Tribunal, on the main square in Zagreb, Croatia on Nov. 16, 2012. Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz.

A man cries after the UN Yugoslav war crimes court acquitted former generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac of charges including war crimes during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia and ordered them free, in Zagreb on Nov. 16, 2012.

Police officers guard a hospital ward while visiting journalists are led on a government-organized tour at the Number Two Detention Center in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2012.

A paramilitary policeman looks at foreign journalists as he guards an entrance to the Number Two Detention Center. The slogan on the wall reads "No small matter in detention center, everything concerns safety."

A chair specially designed to restrain the inmate is set behind bars in an interrogation room at the Number One Detention Center.

Pharmacists work inside a hospital wing at the No.1 Detention Center during a government guided tour.

Police officers wait to perform a security check on visiting journalists outside the gate of the Number Two Detention Center.

Toys, photos of psychiatrists, and a chair are arranged in a psychology consulting room at the Number One Detention Center.

A paramilitary guard stands at a security door inside the No.1 Detention Center.

An inmate and his bride kiss during a mass wedding ceremony for prisoners at the Lurigancho prison. Although Lurigancho prison is one of the most overcrowded, violent, and unruly jails in Latin America, its more than 8,500 prisoners live with so much freedom inside the walled perimeter that they have created their own city which mimics the urban society on the outside.

Prisoners take part in a theatre workshop in the Lurigancho prison in Lima.

An overview of the Lurigancho prison in Lima.

Inmates participate in an Independence Day parade dressed in uniforms and carrying mock rifles.

An inmate gives a haircut inside the Lurigancho prison.

A dog runs on the roof of a wing at the Lurigancho prison.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei waits outside the entrance of the Chaoyang District Court before attempting to attend his appeal verdict hearing in Beijing on September 27, 2012.