Iran suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media announced.

Kargozaran newspaper said that Iran’s judiciary has approved the death sentence for a young man who committed murder as a minor.

the public relations unit of the Sistan-Baluchestan Province judiciary department in Iran announced that the Zahedan Islamic Revolution Court issued a ruling on the execution of Bahram Nikpur.

Iran hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, in violation of an international convention on child rights, reports said. Reza Hejazi, 20, was hanged in a prison in the central city of Isfahan for stabbing a man to death in a fight in 2003, the reformist Etemad newspaper said.

Iran hanged two convicted of drug smuggling inside a Tehran prison, the state run news agency Quds reported

Vehari Jail officials in Pakistan hanged a man for murder, the first execution since the establishment of the jail.

two condemned prisoners, Abbas Ali e Amanat Ali, were hanged in Sahiwal jail in Pakistan for killing two people, including a constable in Chichawatni two years ago. Their bodies were handed over to their families for burial.

a court in Iran handed death sentences to four men including a minor for raping a man after a fight, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported.

a man was hanged in Zahedan, Iran, on charges of adultery. According to the public relations unit of the main judiciary department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the suspect Hasan Sadeqpur was sentenced to death by hanging on charges of adultery following a sentence handed down by the provincial penal court.

an Iranian court sentenced to death a Kurdish student, Habibollah Latifi, his lawyer Nemat Ahmadi announced.

in a major reprieve in the United Arab Emirates, a Sharjah court pardoned two Indian migrant workers.

Yaghub Mehrnahad, a 28 year old Baluchi journalist, human rights and cultural activist, has been hanged in a prison in Zahedan, Iran, Etemad Melli newspaper reported without saying when the execution took place.