China has executed 11 people linked to online scam centres in Myanmar, according to state media, as Beijing toughens its crackdown on the illegal operations.

Amirhossein Moradi, Yazdan Tamanna, Alireza Behboudi, Kiarash Karimdadi

On charges of “espionage for Israel”

Hanif Lavardi,Azim Roshan, Nourkhoda Karambeigi, Bahador Pishvazi, Bakhsh Ali, Mohammad Moshkini, Ardeshir Borjian, Shiroodeh Gerayi (W), Rouhoddin Shamohammadi, Pejman Noorzadeh, Hojat Samiei, Pouria Valizadeh, Siavash Rashidpour, Khalil Jalilpour, Navid Mousavi, Fariborz Amani, Shahnaz Javadi (W), Elahyar Shokhi, Davoud Bagheri, Samir Ghorbani, Ebrahim Jafari, Yahya Akbari, Mojtaba Dehghani, Reza Asadi.

A Dhaka court on January 28, 2026 sentenced five people to death for the 2016 murder of Saidur Rahman Basu, a former president of the Gopalganj Motor Workers Union.