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Saudi Arabia abolishes death sentence for convicts who commit crimes as minors

Saudi Arabia abolishes death sentence for convicts who commit crimes as minors

Smoke billows following an air strike in the rebel-held parts of the Jobar district, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. — AFP

‘Intense’ air strikes pound rebels in east Damascus

UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UAE summons Swiss ambassador over UN Bahrain statement

In this file photo, a car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance toward Daesh held territory in Mosul. — AP

Iraq holds detainees in ‘horrendous conditions’ near Mosul: HRW

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee addresses a news conference after her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. — Reuters

Myanmar may be trying to ‘expel’ all Rohingya

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Special courts to settle family disputes urged

Human Rights Watch

Daesh rapes and tortures Sunni Arab women too: HRW

A still image from an undated video provided by Human Rights Watch claiming to show people treated in Aleppo, Syria, following a gas attack. — Reuters

France wants UN action on Syria chemical weapons’ use

Indian supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) listen to the party leader and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he speaks during a state assembly election rally in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, in this Feb. 8, 2017 file photo. — AFP

Amnesty urges probe over India minister torture claim

A handout image released on Tuesday by Amnesty International shows the military-run Saydnaya prison, one of Syria’s largest detention centers located 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Damascus, in two distinct satellite pictures, one taken on March 3, 2010 (L) and the other of the same taken on September 18, 2016. — AFP

Assad regime hanged 13,000 in Syria ‘slaughterhouse’: Amnesty

Khaled Almaeena

Is the Arab world truly independent?

National Society for Human Rights

‘Women enjoy child custody right even after remarriage’

This file handout photograph shows a military official (C) briefing Myanmar Vice President Myint Swe (2nd R, in blue jacket), head of the Rakhine State Investigation Commission, during his visit to Gwazon, a Muslim majority village in Maungdaw located in Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border. — AFP

Myanmar rejects UN criticism of Rohingya abuse investigation

Aijaz Zaka Syed

Who will save the Rohingya?

HRC chief receives UK ambassador

HRC chief receives UK ambassador

National Society for Human Rights

NSHR reports 23% jump in family violence cases

Activists of Pakistan civil society rally to condemn the missing human rights activist Salman Haider, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday. — AP

Rights groups ask Pakistan to probe abductions of activists

Rohingya from Myanmar make their way in an alley at an unregistered refugee camp in Teknaf, near Cox’s Bazar, a southern coastal district about, 296 km south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo. — AP

UN rights envoy visits Myanmar amid reports of Rohingya abuse

National Society for Human Rights

Defendants in murder case complain of protracted trial

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman chairs the Cabinet’s session at Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh on Monday afternoon. — SPA

Stop Aleppo bloodshed