Abdelrahman Boutouta, the head of a legal committee tasked with amending Libya's penal code, told

An Iranian man convicted of rape was hanged in a prison in the city of Karaj on the western outskirts of Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported.

two people were executed in China for their involvement in the country's contaminated milk scandal, in which at least six infants died and more than 300,000 became ill.

Saudi Arabian man Mourif al-Ribai was executed in the Kharj region of Riyadh after being convicted of murdering his sister, the interior ministry announced in a statement carried by the official SPA agency.

the criminal court in Karbala, Iraq, sentenced a woman to death for killing her father and husband with the

ISNA news agency said an unidentified 23-year-old man convicted of robbery and rape was hanged in Bojnourd city in Iran’s north eastern North Khorasan province. It did not give the date of execution.

Sudan sentenced six children to death for taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum but has since

Kyrgyzstan's youth human rights organisation staged a protest near Government House in Bishkek. Young

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to Tehran to appeal for the lives of Iranian Kurds sentenced to death, a

three Iranian men were hanged for raping a 17-year-old boy who subsequently committed suicide, the Fars

A death row inmate who once played a role in a controversial Benetton clothing advertising campaign

Russia's Constitutional Court prolonged a moratorium on the death penalty, which was due to expire on January 1, until it is banned completely.