A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment over the killing of three American military trainers outside an army base last year. The military court in Amman found 39-year-old Maarik Al-Tawaiha guilty of shooting the trainers as they waited to enter the King Faisal base at Al-Jafr in southern Jordan on November … Read more
A Bahraini court dissolved a secular opposition party on Wednesday, a judicial official said, as authorities in the Gulf state kept up a crackdown on dissent. The decision by the administrative court, just months after the main party representing the kingdom’s Shiite majority was also banned, was swiftly condemned by human rights groups. The justice … Read more
A former Egyptian presidential candidate and rights lawyer who challenged the government for handing over islands to Saudi Arabia was detained Tuesday on suspicion of illegal political work, a judicial official said. Khaled Ali was summoned by the prosecution for questioning on suspicion of having set up an unregistered political party, the official said. The … Read more
Egypt’s top appeals court on Thursday acquitted ex-president Hosni Mubarak of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that ended his three-decade reign, a judicial official said. Mubarak had been sentenced to life in 2012 but an appeals court ordered a retrial, which dismissed the charges two years later. Thursday’s ruling by … Read more