RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia detained two more women's rights advocates earlier this month and imposed a travel ban on several others in an ongoing crackdown in the conservative Muslim kingdom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The arrests, just weeks before the much-hyped lifting of a decades-old ban on
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Professor and father of New York Knicks’ center, Enes Kanter among arrested in Turkey for alleged ties to Gulen
(Haaretz) Mehmet Kanter, the father of New York Knicks center Enes Kanter, has been indicted by a Turkish court on charges he was “a member of a terrorist organization,” Turkish state media reported on Monday. The indictment says the elder Kanter was contacted by 127 people with ties to exiled, U.S.-based
Saudi Arabia arrests 1.25 million foreigners
By Middle East Affairs On Wednesday, the Kingdom reported that Saudi Arabia had arrested more than 1.25 million people for violating residential, labor and border security regulations over the last few months. The sweeping raid of arrests began on November 16 and recently ended on June 14, in that time 1,251,966 people were
Iran arrests human rights lawyer likely to face solitary confinement
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iranian security forces arrested prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on Wednesday, her husband said in a Facebook post. "A few hours ago Nasrin was arrested at home and sent to the court at Evin [prison]," Sotoudeh’s husband Reza Khandan wrote. "I once told investigators in the investigation
14 students freed after being imprisoned for protesting Turkey’s military campaign against Kurdish fighters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Wednesday released 14 college students who are on trial for opposing Turkey's incursion in northern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia, private broadcaster CNN Turk said. The students at Istanbul's Bogazici University were detained in March on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda shortly after