An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party ...
Turkish courts have placed 32,000 suspects under arrest ahead of trial on charges of links to a group run by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who is blamed for the July 15 coup ...
Turkish police on Saturday detained a veteran journalist and his academic brother as part of the investigation into the failed July 15 coup, the latest prominent figures ...
Iran has executed a group of 20 ‘terrorist’ prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported on Thursday.
Tough new security legislation came into force in Malaysia Monday, with critics saying the ‘draconian’ law threatens democracy and could be used against opponents ...
Police in southern India are searching for two medical students after video of one flinging a stray dog from the balcony of a two-storey building went viral, sparking outrage.
Two whistleblowers in the ‘LuxLeaks’ tax scandal were given suspended jail sentences on Wednesday for leaking thousands of documents that exposed Luxembourg's huge tax breaks ...
She was headed for the electric chair in Florida, he for the gallows in Ireland: both escaped death row and are now an unlikely couple campaigning for an end to capital punishment.
Iran is preparing international legal action to recover nearly $2 billion that the US Supreme Court has ordered be paid as compensation to American victims of terror attacks ...
Pakistan military courts have sentenced eleven Taliban militants to death for terrorism-related offences, the army said Tuesday.
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers demanded justice on the anniversary Sunday of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory ...
Almost 2,000 people in Turkey have been prosecuted for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he came to office in August 2014, a government minister said on Wednesday.
