The head of a commission investigating abuses by church members says thousands of paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950.

Anti-death penalty group Reprieve says 80% of minors sentenced to death for crimes in Saudi Arabia still face execution despite the kingdom’s announcement to have scarped death penalty for child offenders.

The 17-year-old duo is being held in the Megiddo detention center without charge or trial.

Israel has arrested 456 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during the month of January, including 93 minors and eight women, four groups advocating Palestinian prisoners’ rights report.

The latest court cases have raised concerns over freedom of expression in Turkey.

Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to stop the imminent execution of eight men charged with protest-related crimes, some of which they allegedly committed as children.