Bahrain’s appeals court has ruled to uphold a nine-year jail sentence handed down to senior Shia opposition cleric, Sheikh Ali Salman, despite widespread criticism both at home and abroad against his imprisonment. The verdict against cleric Ali Salman, whose Al-Wefaq movement was dissolved in July, was re-imposed after the court ...
Turkish police detained more than 100 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) officials on Monday over alleged links to Kurdish militants in a country-wide operation, state media reported. The early-morning raids saw 118 HDP officials rounded up on suspicion of belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or producing propaganda ...
