An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council urged member states Thursday to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists before a G20 nations summit which Riyadh will be hosting in November. At least a dozen prominent women's rights activists were arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2018 as it...

 The Syrian security has released three detainees of 11 who were arrested in anti-government protests in the Druze city of Sweida, local activists said  Wednesday . Hundreds of people took to the streets of Sweida three weeks ago, protesting worsening economic conditions and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rapper Ali Junaid is another Syrian militant who applied for asylum in Germany in 2016 despite his service in the National  Defense Units, the main armed wing of Bashar al-Assad. Junaid, 26, entered Germany through Turkey and earlier this year he moved from...

The unexplained death of a fugitive Iranian judge, who plunged from a top floor of his hotel in Bucharest last week, has infuriated activists who say a rare chance has been missed to bring a senior Iranian official to justice over alleged rights violations. Gholamreza Mansouri's body was...