Israel authorizes an additional 3,000 housing units a day after Palestine is recognized as a non-member observer state of the UN.

The document restricts freedom of expression in the name of protecting religion, and allows for the military trial of civilians.

The verdict has sent out shock waves among activists in Qatar and the Gulf region, who say that the sentence feels like a threat to them all. 

Some 15 men are being held following their arrest in Riyadh during a peaceful protest at the continued detention and ill-treatment of relatives.

Both sides have been violating international humanitarian law, according to information gathered by the UN, local human rights organizations and Amnesty International.

Undocumented foreign nationals in Libya are at risk of exploitation, arbitrary and indefinite detention, as well as beatings, sometimes amounting to torture.

The Bahraini authorities have stripped 31 opposition figures of their Bahraini nationality in a move described by Amnesty International as “frightening and chilling”.

Wa’ed Tamimi, 16-year-old son of Bassem Tamimi was arrested at a demonstration in the village of al-Nabi Saleh on Friday.

Bassem Tamimi faces a further prison term for his involvement in non-violent protests against the encroachment of Israeli settlers onto Palestinian land.