Nigerian police have fired live ammunition and teargas at protesting Shia Muslims as large crowds gathered in the capital city Abuja Thursday to demand the release of ailing cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky.
Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld life sentences against two political dissidents as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Security forces of Aal-e Khailfa in Bahrain have destroyed signs marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA), the daughter of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).
A Shia Muslim little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fueling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim.
A young activist who had been detained in a Saudi jail since March 2011 has died in prison.
Nigerian Muslims have once again waged protest rally in the capital of Abuja to demand the release of top Muslim religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
Amnesty International has warned against what appears to be imminent executions of a dozen Shia Muslims on death row in Saudi Arabia, blasting the Riyadh regime for resorting to death sentences as a “tool” to suppress the kingdom’s Shia minorities.
A Nigerian court has refused to grant bail to Ayatollah Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, days after more than 40 of his supporters were martyred during protests demanding his release.
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) says 42 of its members have been martyred by Nigerian security forces during protests in the capital Abuja over the past two days.
Worshippers leaving a mosque in London have been hit by a car in a possible hate crime that saw the driver hurling Islamophobic slurs at the people taking part in a religious ceremony for the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Muhammad's (SAWA) grandson.