Former Prime Minister Imran Khan rallied thousands of supporters in eastern Pakistan on March 13 as courts in the capital, Islamabad, issued two more arrest warrants for him over his failure to appear before judges in graft and terrorism cases, officials said.
Three men from Kazakhstan's southeastern city of Taldyqorghan who survived torture after they were arrested during anti-government protests in January last year, have demanded the police officers who assaulted them face justice.
Iranian hunger-striking activist Hossein Ronaghi has been transferred back to Tehran's notorious Evin prison after being moved to a hospital over health concerns.
The U.S. Navy said on November 15 it had scuttled a boat transporting "explosive materials" from Iran to supply Huthi rebels in Yemen, with enough power to fuel a dozen ballistic rockets.
A prominent Iranian human rights advocate incarcerated in Iran's notorious Evin prison has published a letter expressing concern about the heavy sentences including the death penalty being handed to protesters.