A number of UN agencies call on Israeli authorities to immediately release chronically ill Palestinian teenager Amal Nakhleh, who suffers from a rare neuromuscular disorder and has been held without charge for a year.

The European Union has urged Israeli officials to cease the detention without charge of critically-ill Palestinian teenager Amal Muamar Nakhleh.

Novak Djokovic won a stunning victory Monday over the Australian government, overturning the cancellation of the tennis star's visa on Covid-19 health grounds, and ending his detention.

Reporters Without Borders says Saudi Arabia is among the five countries with the highest number of journalists and media professionals behind the bars.

Israeli forces arrested about 365 Palestinians, including 50 women and children, in November, a report says.

Two British citizens, who say they were arbitrarily detained and tortured in the UAE, have filed a lawsuit against the Emirati nominee for Interpol chief, accusing him of overseeing their arrest and torture.

Sheikh Hussein al-Radi is being killed slowly in prison as Saudi Arabia deprives him of necessary treatment, a rights group says.