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 ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia plans to delay the public flogging of a rights activist on medical grounds, Amnesty International said on Thursday, raising the possibility that Riyadh may be trying to quietly drop the ...

Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran's mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term. His lawyer, Zahra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...