OTTAWA - The wife of a Saudi rights activist, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes last year, said Thursday her husband's health had worsened after the first round of flogging and that he could not ...

Amnesty International is calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to halt the flogging and imprisonment of a 75-year-old woman and two younger men for moral “crimes”. The Saudi Minister of Interior is ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The wife of a Saudi rights activist, sentenced last year to 1,000 lashes for criticizing the Kingdom's clerics in his blog, said on Thursday her husband's health had worsened after ...

A jury on Thursday acquitted Marty Small Sr. of all four crimes he was charged with, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his teenage daughter. By Tracey Tully Mehdi Yarrahi, a ...

"Candle-lit #FreeRaif vigil for 31-year-old blogger goes ahead at Saudi embassy in London at 5pm today ‘Raif Badawi is still at risk, there is no way of knowing whether the Saudi Arabian authorities ...

Punishment is meant to reform an offender but in some jurisdictions, it must be meted out to whoever deserves it at all cost; even if it would result in death. An Indonesian man reportedly fainted ...

Raif Badawi is being punished for insulting Islam. He was flogged Jan. 9, part of a sentence of 50 lashes a week for 20 weeks, along with a decade... Saudi authorities have once again canceled the ...

An update now on a story we brought you yesterday. The Saudi blogger who was to be publicly flogged again today - 50 lashes - has been given a temporary reprieve. Raif Badawi is serving 10 years in ...

The death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests in and outside of Iran — Yasin AKGUL A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was ...

Rights group Amnesty International said Thursday that Saudi Arabia would postpone the flogging of blogger Raef Badawi, whose case has sparked international criticism, for a second week on medical ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who rejected the mandatory hijab rule. By Leily Nikounazar and Lynsey Chutel The ...