Egypt's State Council, the top legal body in the country, is reported to have approved a draft bill abolishing the use of flogging as a disciplinary measure in prisons, reported the BBC.online. Human ...

Hundreds of discriminatory sex cases against women have been hushed up in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, it is claimed. Human Rights Watch believes authorities suppressed coverage to improve its image.

The question of flogging in Palestine jails came up in Commons yesterday when Col. Josiah Wedgwood urged that flogging be inflicted on prisoners for only such offences as are punishable by flogging in ...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. The decision comes on the heels of another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging, replacing ...

(New York) - The sentencing of four Tehran bloggers by Iran's Judiciary Court on February 3, 2009, to prison terms, fines and flogging, despite the head of the judiciary's admission that they had been ...

Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture - including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence - against child protesters as ...

Tehran's Judiciary Court sentenced four Iranian bloggers and journalists to prison terms of up to three years and three months, and to be flogged.Only one of these bloggers lives inside Iran. Global ...