A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent cleric and former imam of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca Sheikh Saleh Al Talib to 10 years in prison.

A UN special rapporteur says she is concerned about the fate of imprisoned Saudi Shia cleric and human rights activist Sheikh Mohammed Hassan al-Habib.

Human rights organizations warn about the dire condition of political dissidents and prisoners of conscience in Bahrain’s detention centers.

The UN Human Rights Council sharply criticizes Saudi Arabia for sentencing women's rights activist Salma al-Shehab to 34 years in prison for retweeting activists and sharing posts critical of the Riyadh regime.

An international human rights organization says executions in Saudi Arabia could hit record high this year as the number skyrocketed to 120 in the first half of the current year.

The African country, home to 45 million people, is also dealing with a severe economic crisis and an inflation reaching 400 percent.

The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has called his group the frontrunner of battle against Israel.

A Saudi legal activist says family members of women being kept behind bars at detention centers across the kingdom are physically and psychologically tormented.

Bahraini forces have tightened their ruthless crackdown against Shia Muslims ahead of the occasion of Ashura.

Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric has dismissed the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections as “a new disaster” for the Persian Gulf nation.