Ayoub Massoudi given four-month suspended sentence by a military court in Tunis.

Civilians, many of them children, are the main victims of a campaign of relentless and indiscriminate attacks by the Syrian army.

Across Libya, 'irregular migrants' are detained in poor conditions where they face torture and other ill-treatment.

Every day children and other civilians are being killed and injured in indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes by government armed forces all over Syria.

Countries neighbouring Syria must ensure that refugees who are stranded on their borders are allowed to find sanctuary, Amnesty International said.

The acquittal of Pastor Yousef Naderkhani in a re-trial in Iran’s northern Gilan province demonstrates just why the Iranian authorities must guarantee the rights of all religious minorities in Iran.

A string of recent court rulings in the Omani capital Muscat are crushing free speech in Oman.

The Iranian authorities must halt all executions scheduled in the coming days, Amnesty International said,  amid reports up to 23 individuals may be at risk.

Mauritania should have surrendered Abdullah al-Senussi to the ICC instead of extraditing him to Libya.