TEHRAN, May 22 - At least 10 women's rights activists — seven women and three men — are being interrogated and held without access to a lawyer in Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, May 19 - Catalonia's new president has named a cabinet that includes jailed leaders of a controversial independence movement in the northeastern Spanish region.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Police in Indonesia say a hostage crisis at a high-security prison on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, has ended, three days after scores of inmates conducted “an act of terror” against guards in the detention center, killing a number of police personnel.
TEHRAN, April 18 - A court in Bahrain has sentenced 32 anti-regime activists to jail over their alleged role in an attack on a police station in the capital more than a year ago.
TEHRAN, April 17 - A Turkish court ruled Monday to keep an American Christian pastor in custody, deeming him to be a flight risk, after his trial opened in a case that has raised tensions with Washington.
TEHRAN, April 06 - South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years Friday for corruption, completing a dramatic fall from grace for the country's first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule.
TEHRAN, March 29 - At least 68 people have lost their lives in a riot and a subsequent fire in the cells of a police station in Venezuela’s northern city of Valencia, the country’s attorney general has announced.
TEHRAN, March 26 - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's government tabled a bill in parliament on Monday outlawing "fake news", with hefty fines and up to 10 years in jail, raising more concerns about media freedom in the wake of a multi-billion dollar graft scandal.
TEHRAN, March 15 - The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) says the government in Abuja plans to keep the movement's leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenah in detention until they die.
TEHRAN, March 10 - The daughter of the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has reportedly fled the Persian Gulf kingdom after being secretly jailed for three years and four months and drugged in hospital for her dissidence.
TEHRAN, March 8 - Several hundred opposition supporters staged a protest in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday demanding the release of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who is serving a five-year prison sentence in a corruption case.
TEHRAN, February 27 - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 30-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye who was ousted last year amid an influence-peddling scandal as supporters braved the winter cold outside the Seoul court demanding her immediate release.
TEHRAN, February 27 - The daughter of Lebanon’s prominent Shia leader Imam Musa al-Sadr, who went missing with two companions nearly 40 years ago in Libya, says she strongly believes that her father alive and being kept in prison.
TEHRAN, February 24 - France says it has plans to set up 1,500 isolated jail places for radicalized inmates as the European country hardest hit by Takfiri terror attacks prepares for the return of its nationals from the Middle East, where they were fighting alongside Daesh terrorists.
TEHRAN, February 9 - A Dubai court has sentenced an Indian worker to three months in prison for accusing a public body of ripping off the poor, local media reports.
TEHRAN, February 7 - A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 64 military academy officers and trainees to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
TEHRAN, January 12 - The European Union and Turkey will see no progress in their relations as long as Turkey holds journalists in prison, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday.
TEHRAN, January 11 - Bahraini regime officials have sentenced a Shia clergyman to one year in prison over his support for prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been stripped of citizenship by the Al Khalifah regime and is suffering from deteriorating health.
TEHRAN, December 19 - An Egyptian military court on Tuesday sentenced an army colonel to six years in prison after he announced his intention to run against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in next year's elections, his defense lawyer told The Associated Press.