a court in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Regional State found six Ethiopians, one
Japanese lawyers criticised the rising number of executions carried out in the country,
Iran hanged four men convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison.
the Liberian House of Representatives passed into law an Act making Armed
a military court of appeal upheld for a second time the death sentence on
Iran's judiciary ordered a month's postponement of the execution of a young man
the broadcast of the execution of a man more than 50 years ago is the first time most Japanese have
fearing yet another public execution of an alleged outlaw, tribesmen in Machinai locality
a Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed, the first inmate
news reports stated that Saudi Arabian authorities approved the execution order of a Turkish
a three member bench of the Pakistani Supreme Court directed the attorney general to report whether
five people convicted of murder in Iran were pardoned by the victims' families "in the last
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