Friday, 5 November 2021 (YJC)_ A former bodyguard of French President Emmanuel Macron was accused of beating a May Day protester in Paris back in 2018.
Thursday, 18 March 2021_On the 14th of February Bahrain marked 10 years since the Arab uprisings that rippled through the region. As a preemptive measure, the authorities used arbitrary arrests and intimidation to deter people from protesting.
Sunday, 11 October 2020 _Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has visited opposition leaders and political activists detained in a jail in the capital, Minsk, to discuss plans for constitutional reforms, local media say.
Tehran, 02 June_Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iranian scientist Sirous Asgari — who was recently freed after over two years of imprisonment in the US on baseless charges — is currently on a flight back home.
Tehran 29 April _An Iranian scientist — who remains behind bars in the US despite having been exonerated in a sanctions trial — has contracted the new coronavirus after he repeatedly drew attention to his fragile health and called for his release from the “dirty” and “overcrowded” jail facility.
Tehran 09 March_In Moscow, there is now a ‘high alert regime’ and authorities have imposed extra measures to contain the outbreak of the new coronavirus; meanwhile, the battle against COVID-19 goes on in other parts of the globe.
Tehran 7 February _Indian officials have extended six-month imprisonment of four political leaders in the disputed Kashmir region under a draconian law that allows their continued captivity without charge for two years, authorities said.
Tehran 24January_John Kapoor, the founder of US drug maker Insys, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Thursday for helping fuel America's deadly opioid crisis.
TEHRAN, Nov 25_ Over 60 doctors have written an open letter warning about the deteriorating health conditions of Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks.
TEHRAN, Nov 7_A dissident bookseller who has been detained in China off and on since 2015 is to release a collection of his poems that have been smuggled out of jail , a Swedish publishing house said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Jul 6 - New research has linked high county-level incarceration rates to higher rates of drug deaths and economic decline in the United States.
TEHRAN, Jul 5 - An Egyptian human rights group has warned that prominent opposition figure and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh may die in prison due to medical negligence.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - Spain has transferred jail ed Catalan separatists from Madrid to regional prisons in Catalonia pending a verdict this fall. The Spanish Supreme Court has authorised the transfer after a four-month trial where the 12 defendants faced charges of violent rebellion, sedition and misuse of public money.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - Whales and orcas captured to perform in aquariums and held in cramped pens since last summer have been released into the wild after involvement by President Vladimir Putin, officials said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jun 16 - Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have gone on an open-ended hunger strike at a prison in the occupied territories in protest at the harsh prison conditions.
TEHRAN, May 27- A Romanian court has upheld a jail sentence for the powerful head of Romania's ruling Social Democrats, Liviu Dragnea, meaning he now has 24 hours to report to police to begin his sentence.
TEHRAN, May 20 - A senior Iranian academic has criticized the attitude of the United States government toward young Iranians, particularly university students and researchers, saying the US will not be able to weaken the "iron will" of the youths through such measures as the recent arrest of an Iranian stem cell researcher.
TEHRAN, May 19 - The US government has put a top Iranian professor renowned for stem cell research behind bars in Atlanta for alleged sanction violations, a report said.