(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Saudi Arabia: Teachers Silenced on Blasphemy Charges Courts Again Punish Open Discussion by Teachers With Prison, Flogging (New York, ...

Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately release prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who it said is at imminent risk of receiving 80 lashes following ...

"This sentence is another indication of the increasing limitations on press freedom in Yemen," said Hanny Megally, executive director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is ending flogging as a form of punishment, according to a document from the kingdom's top court seen by Reuters on Friday. The decision by the General Commission for ...