TEHRAN(Basirat): Amnesty International has lambasted Saudi Arabia for using a high-profile boxing event to “sportswash” its tarnished human rights image.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Yemen's Interior Ministry says Ibrahim al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has been assassinated.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Saudi authorities have extended the prison sentence of a renowned dissident cleric by four more years, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues in the country.

TEHRAN (Basirat) : A Nigerian High Court in the State of Kaduna has granted the ailing leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife leave to receive medical treatment abroad, a report said.