Jail term for Bahraini activist
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A Bahrain court sentences a human rights activist to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the state.
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An Egyptian court jails an internet blogger for four years for insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak.
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Human rights activists on Wednesday condemned the detention of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for allegedly having sex with a prostitute, and his sentencing without trial to six months of &quot;re-education through labor.&quot; ...
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An Egyptian court sentenced a dissident blogger to four years in prison Thursday for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak, friends told AFP.
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A top opposition politician in ex-Soviet Belarus was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in what he denounced as an attempt to block his drive to make the ex-Soviet state more democratic.
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An ex-pilot is jailed for 20 years for the murder of Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib in 2004.
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Belarus on Friday jailed for three years an editor of an independent newspaper who reproduced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that first appeared in Denmark in 2005 and caused mass demonstrations across the Muslim world.
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A Pakistani judge Monday sentenced a married couple to three years&#39; jail for lying after it emerged that the husband was a transsexual.
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A Saudi court sentences 15 people to prison terms and lashes after an illegal political rally.
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A Moroccan court jailed a German tourist for six months for attempting to convert Muslims in the southern resort of Agadir, officials said on Wednesday.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A prominent U.S. Muslim  activist was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in prison for  illegal financial dealings with Libya and for his role in a  Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's de facto leader.
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A Saudi court has sentenced a university professor to five years in prison for sowing dissent and inciting disobedience against the government.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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An activist has been jailed for a record four years for his part in a campaign of intimidation against an animal testing firm.
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SANAA Aug 28 - A Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail on Saturday over the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg and for other attacks, an AFP correspondent said.
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AN Indonesian court has sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail after finding him guilty of involvement in last year&#39;s JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta.