a Yemeni court sentenced two Pakistani fishermen to death and jailed two others for 25 years after
the Belarus Supreme Court rejected the final appeal against the death sentence given to Vasil Yuzepchuk,
having high-ranking officials speaking about reinstituting the death penalty will irreparably damage
The district court of Bosaso, in Puntland State of Somalia, sentenced one of five young defendants to
the Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, commuted the death sentences on four people to jail terms to
Libyan authorities agreed to stay the execution of the approximately 200 Nigerians on death row pending a
following her appointment as Japanese Justice Minister, Keiko Chiba hoped to create a forum for debate.
Indonesian Nasir Ibrahim, 31, was given the mandatory death sentence by the Malaysian High Court after
Five people were hanged in the prison of Taybad, north-east of Iran reported the official news site of the Iranian police.
judicial commissioner Azman Abdullah of the Malaysian High Court dismissed an appeal by Azhar Abdul
the Al-Shabab Islamic Movement in Somalia sentenced a French national adviser who is being held in
Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamists publicly executed two people accused of spying for the US Central
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
