The criminal court of Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur, sentenced 12 members of the Sudan Liberation

Thirty-seven out of 48 defendants accused of inciting violence and blocking the Qalyoub Highway last year

Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of person under Article 3;

The Kaluthara and Tangalle High courts passed death penalties on 6 individuals today who were found

The Pan-African Conference on the Death Penalty went through its second day. The session began with the reports of the five thematic commissions held the previous day concerning the role of parliamentarians, civil society and media, professional groups, economic commissions and national institutions on human rights.

the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a 26-year-old youth to life term for killing a woman

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared that the death penalty has no place in the 21st

Ugandan Foreign Ministry spokesman Fred Opolot said two Ugandan drug traffickers – Omar Ddamulira

the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to a police constable for murdering his wife and

Today were opened in Cotonou, capital of Benin, the three days works of the Continental Conference on the Abolition of the death penalty in Africa convened by the local government with the Commission on Human Rights and Peoples of the African Union in collaboration with Hands Off Cain and the Nonviolent Radical Party.

Italy is taking forward the battle for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. Today at the Farnesina, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini chaired the first meeting of the task force that will coordinate Italy’s action in the run-up to the United Nations vote on a new resolution.

Ten prisoners were hanged in the city of Urumieh, in northwestern Iran.