a man was hanged for adultery and homosexuality, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei reported.
the minor offender Behnoud Shojaee was executed at 5 in the morning at Tehran's Evin Prison. He was convicted of murdering another boy by the name Omid in June 2005, when he was 17 years old.
Three people arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election have been condemned to death, ISNA
the Permanent Military Court in Gaza, Palestine, headed by Judge Ayman 'Imad al-Din, sentenced Saleem
a man identified as Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani learnt from the Iranian authorities that he had been
Amnesty International urged the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko to grant clemency to a man
the governors of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation called on the Federal Government to sentence
two men were hanged on September 3 in Aleppo, Syria, for armed robbery and murder, according to a foreign witness.
Seven Ahwazi Arab opposition activists have been sentenced to death in secret trials in Iran's Revolutionary
the Sana'a Appeal Court in Yemen upheld a death sentence against a Pakistani and jailed five others for 25
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed the executions of two inmates, hours after a federal appeals court
an Iranian man and woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning were freed on appeal,
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
