Saudi authorities have extended the prison sentence handed down to a prominent religious preacher, and increased it from 23 to 40 years.

Saudi Arabia’s so-called Specialized Criminal Court has sentenced a pro-democracy campaigner to 10 years in prison for writing tweets critical of the government.

Saudi opposition and human rights activists express outrage over decades-long prison sentences handed down to two Saudi women over social media activism.

A Saudi court has sentenced a social media activist to 18 years in prison as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against democracy advocates widens in the kingdom.

A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent cleric and former imam of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca Sheikh Saleh Al Talib to 10 years in prison.

An international human rights organization says executions in Saudi Arabia could hit record high this year as the number skyrocketed to 120 in the first half of the current year.

Venezuela's former opposition lawmaker Juan Requesens has been sentenced to eight years in prison for involvement in the 2018 assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro.

Bolivia’s ex-president Jeanine Anez gets a 10-year prison term more than a year after her arrest on charges of leading a US-backed plot in 2019 to oust re-elected socialist president Evo Morales.

A human rights organization says Saudi authorities are intentionally depriving the detained Hamas official in the kingdom of necessary medication.

Saudi authorities add another eight years to the prison sentence of prominent religious preacher Sheikh Khalid al-Rashid.