HRW: Bahrain court verdicts ‘mind-boggling’
Bahrain's Court of Cassation on Monday upheld jail terms served by a lower court on the 13 activists for allegedly plotting to overthrow the monarchy
Banned cartoonist protests against ‘Brotherhoodisation’
Samah Farouk, whose cartoons were banned from a Sawy Culturewheel exhibition, paints graffiti outside the venue decrying the a crackdown on freedom of expression
Egypt Party proposes constitutional amendments
Amr Khalid says his party wants to strengthen gender equality and freedom of belief provisions in new constitution
Police fire plastic bullets in N. Ireland riots
Some 3,000 people were killed in the three decades of sectarian bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles."
China press freedom campaign swells with new rally
Scores of people, some carrying mourning flowers, gathered outside the Guangzhou offices of the Southern Weekly
Hamas plans to build industrial city near Egyptian border
Local manufacturing in Gaza could decrease Egyptian exports, expert warns
Two to plead not guilty in Delhi gang-rape case
Mukesh Singh, who is the brother of the bus driver Ram Singh, and Thakur are two of the five men charged with rape and murder over the 16 December attack…
Shi’as hold counter-demos in southern Iraq
Among those rallies have been an ongoing sit-in in western Anbar province that has blocked off a key highway linking Iraq to Syria and Jordan since 23 December
Boat found, fishermen missing off Matruh coast
Armed forces respond to fishing boat’s distress call off coast of Ras El-Hekma, in Marsa Matruh
