Police fired tear gas during clashes in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected triad gang members on protesters and commuters at a train station last weekend. Police, widely criticised for failing to better protect the...

Bahrain executed Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a statement. Rights groups identified two of the men as Shiite activists Ali al-Arab and Ahmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Saudi Interior Ministry said the number of Syrians held over security charges by the kingdom’s General Investigation Directorate has reached a total of 259, according to statement issued Tuesday. The Syrian detainees occupy the second place in the list of...

A leading rights group is criticizing Egyptian authorities for imposing repressive probation measures on pro-democracy activists recently released from prison. The measures require those released to report every day to the police and spend the night at the nearest police station for months,...