Instead of delivering justice and an impartial investigation into a blogger's death in custody, Iranian authorities have been intimidating his family members.

Bahrain urged to release a prominent human rights defender whose conviction for involvement in anti-government protests has been upheld.

An Omani appeals court has upheld convictions against five men and a woman in what Amnesty International said is part of an ongoing assault on freedom of expression.

Israel authorizes an additional 3,000 housing units a day after Palestine is recognized as a non-member observer state of the UN.

The document restricts freedom of expression in the name of protecting religion, and allows for the military trial of civilians.

The verdict has sent out shock waves among activists in Qatar and the Gulf region, who say that the sentence feels like a threat to them all. 

Some 15 men are being held following their arrest in Riyadh during a peaceful protest at the continued detention and ill-treatment of relatives.

Both sides have been violating international humanitarian law, according to information gathered by the UN, local human rights organizations and Amnesty International.

Undocumented foreign nationals in Libya are at risk of exploitation, arbitrary and indefinite detention, as well as beatings, sometimes amounting to torture.