Syria has become the most dangerous country in the world for journalists since the eruption of popular protests in 2011 and the development since then of a bitter ...
Bahraini human rights activist, Naji Fateel, was arrested on 2 May 2013 at his home by plain clothed police officers. His whereabouts are unknown. He is a prisoner ...
A Yemeni man who had been granted a stay of execution in February could now be executed as early as 5 May. His birth certificate shows that he was 15 years old ...
Sheikh Tawfiq Jaber Ibrahim al-'Amr risks a harsher sentence when his appeal is heard within the next few weeks. He has been serving a three-year prison sentence ...
Sixteen-year-old Ahmed Ismael al-'Akkad, who suffers from asthma, has been held incommunicado in conditions possibly amounting to enforced disappearance since 20 ...
The ongoing internal armed conflict in Syria is fuelling a mass outflow of people seeking safety abroad, with more than 1.3 million refugees from Syria having fled ...
Six reformist prisoners of conscience have been kept behind bars, while 10 others, several of whom were out on bail, are now released under a “pardon” on condition ...