Novak Djokovic won a stunning victory Monday over the Australian government, overturning the cancellation of the tennis star's visa on Covid-19 health grounds, and ending his detention.

Reporters Without Borders says Saudi Arabia is among the five countries with the highest number of journalists and media professionals behind the bars.

Israeli forces arrested about 365 Palestinians, including 50 women and children, in November, a report says.

Two British citizens, who say they were arbitrarily detained and tortured in the UAE, have filed a lawsuit against the Emirati nominee for Interpol chief, accusing him of overseeing their arrest and torture.

Sheikh Hussein al-Radi is being killed slowly in prison as Saudi Arabia deprives him of necessary treatment, a rights group says.

Thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails are refusing their meals in a show of solidarity with six prisoners already on lengthy hunger strikes to protest their detention.

Under the so-called “administrative detention” policy, the Israeli regime has been detaining Palestinians without legal trial or charges for long periods of time.

The UN independent rights expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar says international efforts to stop the downward spiral of events in the country are failing, urging a “change of course” to avert further human rights abuses and deaths.

An NGO voices concern over the fate of a prominent Saudi activist, whose whereabouts remain unknown since his detention four months ago.

Police in Colombia detain 70 people in new anti-government protests that draw thousands of people to the streets across the South American country.