the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al-Qaeda-linked militants had publicly executed a woman
A penal court in Taif has sentenced an Ethiopian maid to death for killing her woman sponsor with an axe.
Andrew Brannan was executed in Georgia.
Two former police commandos were sentenced to death after the Federal Court allowed the government’s
A Chittagong court awarded death sentence to three persons for raping a health worker in Banshkhali
the Indonesian government formally appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah to pardon a maid on death
A Burmese woman was executed in Makkah, in western Saudi Arabia, after she was found guilty of
Pakistan hanged seven convicted militants, officials said, raising to 16 the number of executions carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in December.
Lebanon’s judiciary sentenced five brothers from the Shamas family to death in abstentia over the 2007
Another convicted of attempting to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, was
Yang Haijun, former deputy principal of a primary school in north China's Hebei Province, was executed for
Three men were hanged in the Central Prison of Sanandaj.
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
