The Jordanian Council of Ministers referred to the Council of Representatives a draft law amending the Penal Code. The bill contains amendments to seventy-one articles of the original law, which consists of four hundred sixty-six articles, that is more than one-third of the law in force. This Penal Code is being amended for the twenty-fourth time since 1960

On 5 May 2017, Afghan forces opened fire and shelled a village along the Chaman border with Afghanistan, in which at least 12 people were killed, including two women and four children, whilst ten people were injured. Pakistan retaliated and immediately closed the border at Chaman and Torkham until further notice. The Afghan regime later stated that the attack was a mistake but such "mistakes" are bound to occur in…

27/04/2017, the Preliminary Court in Manouba issued a ruling on the acquittal of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir: Ahmad Ashour, Al-Munsif Ad-Dalaji, and Mahmoud At-Tebini, who had previously been referred by the Public Prosecution for charges of publishing and sticking (leaflets) in public places calling for "racial or ethnic hatred by inciting discrimination, and by use of hostile means, violence, or dissemination of ideas based on racial discrimination" punishable…

It does not violate the principle of equal treatment when Danish colleges prohibit their students from praying in the school's areas. This is the principle decision of the Equal Treatment Board, which fell on 27 April 2017.