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Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced a senior opposition figure on February 15, 2015, to 18 months in prison for criticizing the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The court convicted Zaki Bani Irsheid, a senior Muslim Brotherhood official, under Jordan’s terrorism law, which lawmakers amended in 2014 to include a provision that criminalizes “disturbing [Jordan’s] relations with a foreign state.”

Ali Mohammadi, a 25-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, said a police officer asked him why he had not fought back when he filed a complaint after a group of men attacked him in March 2011 in Aghios Panteleimonas square in Athens.

As the political crisis deepens in Yemen, UNICEF reaffirms its commitment to stay and deliver for the children of Yemen.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Victims of former Chandian dictator Hissène Habré wait to be heard by investigators of the Extraordinary African Chambers in N’djamena, Chad on August 23, 2013.

Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of a land rights activist in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said on 14 February.

Children sit in a UNICEF-supported centre for vulnerable children, in the conflict-affected Hajjah Governorate, Yemen.

Victims of former Chandian dictator Hissène Habré wait to be heard by investigators of the Extraordinary African Chambers in N’djamena, Chad on August 23, 2013.

A group of refugees in Diffa, Niger, after fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria.