News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …

Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …