Independent UN rights experts called on the government of Bahrain to release detained human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja due to the absence of evidence against her.
Opposition activists say they have confirmed 27 cases of chemical gas use in Syria since the UN passed UNSCR 2118, calling for destruction of all chemical weapons in the country.
Four were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and Egyptian police on the anniversary of the Rabaa Square massacre, in which 1,000 lost their lives.
Kuwait's Supreme Court upheld a 10-year sentence for a man accused of posting Tweets that insulted the Prophet Mohammed and the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Bahrain's Ministry of Justice filed a suit seeking to suspend all activities of the main Shi'ite opposition group, whose leaders were accused of an illegal meeting with a US diplomat.
Residents of Aleppo, under siege and bombardment by Syrian regime forces, held a candle-light ceremony for the residents of Gaza under Israeli bombardment and invasion.
As rival militias battle for control of Tripoli's airport, a suspect in the 2012 attack in Benghazi is found dead in Libya's eastern town of Marj, also under control of a local militia.
A Cairo appeals court overturned a decision that banned former leaders of Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party from running in Egypt's parliamentary elections.
An Egyptian court confirmed the death sentence of 183 Muslim Brotherhood members in violence related to last year's protests. Of these, 73 were tried in absentia.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria warned the UN that the continuing civil war has "reached a tipping point, threatening the entire region."
Kuwait's Supreme Court upheld the two-year prison sentence of opposition activist Hejab al-Hajeri for writing tweets found to be offensive to the country's emir.
An Egyptian court sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent activist from the 2011 revolution, to 15 years in prison for organizing an unsanctioned protest last year.
