Ayatollah Khamenei pardons or commutes the sentences of a large number of Iranian prisoners arrested during recent Western-instigated riots in the country.

A court in Myanmar has convicted the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges, adding to previous convictions that now leave her with a 26-year total prison term.

A Saudi judge has sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years over trying to organize a remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for her social media posts, a rights group says, marking the second such case in weeks.

A court in Myanmar sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six years prison term for corruption charges.

Iran has summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires in protest at a Swedish court’s sentencing of an Iranian citizen to life in jail.

A Turkish court has closed the case into the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi ahead of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the country, according to documents seen by the Middle East Eye.