Iranian authorities ramp up efforts against foreign currency speculation.

Saudi Arabia has sentenced prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Kazem al-Omari to four years in prison.

Cats & Dogs talks about double definitions of crackdowns, slow downs and put downs. 

Saudi Arabian regime forces re-arrest prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Kadhim al-Amri, as crackdown steps up against members of the religious community.

Saudi authorities have arrested an activist for critical tweets about the Riyadh regime, and its handling of unemployment in the country.

“We weren't there to disrupt the city residents,” trucker Brigitte Belton has said. "We were there to be heard."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to testify at a public inquiry on Friday in defense of his government’s use of wartime measures in suppressing trucker protests that paralyzed the capital city earlier this year.

The uprising began on November 14, 1973 and escalated to an open anti-junta revolt that ended in bloodshed.

Saudi authorities have extended the prison sentence handed down to a prominent religious preacher, and increased it from 23 to 40 years.

Saudi Arabia’s so-called Specialized Criminal Court has sentenced a pro-democracy campaigner to 10 years in prison for writing tweets critical of the government.