Nearly 160 international rights groups have called on the United States to close down its detention center in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.

An informed source says officials at Bahrain’s Jau Prison have brutally beaten and tortured at least 14 inmates inside the detention center.

A leader of the Palestinian Fatah resistance movement says Israeli officials are exposing Palestinian children to brutal forms of torture in detention centers, and are treating them as serious criminals.

A court in Myanmar has convicted the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges, adding to previous convictions that now leave her with a 26-year total prison term.

Some 300 human rights groups and civil organizations have denounced the continued detention of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and called for their immediate release.

A Finnish rights activist plans to sue the UAE government in European courts over her ordeal during her time behind bars in the Persian Gulf country.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for her social media posts, a rights group says, marking the second such case in weeks.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been urged to intervene in the case of a Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activities.

A court in Myanmar sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six years prison term for corruption charges.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates says a Palestinian prisoner has suffered memory loss after mistreatment at an Israeli jail.