TEHRAN, August 16 - Bahrain's detention of activist Nabeel Rajab is unlawful and violates his right to freedom of expression, U.N. human rights experts have found, calling on the kingdom to release him immediately with compensation.
TEHRAN, August 15 - A political dissident and Muslim preacher in Saudi Arabia has reportedly died as a result of torture while in regime custody as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
TEHRAN, July 30 -Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenage girl who gained international fame for slapping Israeli soldiers, says she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail but regrets none of her actions.
TEHRAN, July 20 - A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.
TEHRAN, July 13 - Pakistan authorities locked down parts of Lahore Friday for the return from London of former premier Nawaz Sharif, who faces possible arrest and a 10-year prison sentence ahead of already tense elections his party insists are being rigged.
TEHRAN, July 12 - A Turkish court on Wednesday handed jail terms of up to 22 years to five top managers convicted of negligence over Turkey's worst ever mining disaster, which claimed hundreds of lives.
TEHRAN, July 08 - Kuwait's highest court on Sunday ordered an opposition leader and two lawmakers imprisoned for 3 ½ years over the 2011 storming of parliament amid that year's Arab Spring protests, in a case involving nearly 70 politicians, activists and others.
TEHRAN, July 06 -A Pakistani anti-corruption court has handed down a 10-year jail term to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case linked to his family's purchase of upscale flats in London.
TEHRAN, June 23 - A young French woman who was visiting her mother in western Canada spent two weeks in a US detention center after inadvertently crossing the border while jogging along the beach, a report said on Friday.
TEHRAN, June 20 - Migrant children are being kept in prison-like conditions with only emergency blankets to keep them warm at the McAllen juvenile detention centre in Texas, footage released by the US government on Tuesday showed.
TEHRAN, June 17 - U.S. President Donald Trump’s former election campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was sent to jail pending trial on Friday after being charged with witness tampering, the latest episode in his long fall from grace.
TEHRAN, June 07 -Turkey says its courts have so far handed prison terms for more than 2,000 people suspected of having links to a failed coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan two years ago.
TEHRAN, June 04 - A Russian court on Monday sentenced Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko to 12 years in jail on charges of spying for Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, June 01 - Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jail s and detention facilities are expected to launch a hunger strike next week in protest against their detention without charge or trial.
TEHRAN, May 29 -EDL leader-turned independent journalist Tommy Robinson was jail ed for 13 months for contempt of court. Leeds Crown Court blocked the media from publishing anything about Robinson’s imprisonment via reporting restrictions.
TEHRAN, May 28 - A draft Israeli bill proposes to ban filming of soldiers and jail offenders for up to 5 years. Here are some videos that would qualify as an offense under the proposed ban, slammed as an attempt to hide abuse of Palestinians.
TEHRAN, May 22 -A prominent Polish satirist is under investigation for defamation and faces up to three years in jail for a critical piece in which he called his home country “stupid,” and compared the president to a TV show character.
TEHRAN, May 22 - At least 10 women's rights activists — seven women and three men — are being interrogated and held without access to a lawyer in Saudi Arabia.