A leader and financial backer of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh was executed for war crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Hands Off Cain asks the Italian authorities not to grant extradition in the Islamic Republic of the blogger Mehdi Khosravi, also known as Yashar Parsa, born in Iran, but resident in the United Kingdom as a political refugee, arrested August 7 in Dorio, province of Lecco, while on vacation in Italy.

The Specialised Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia issued its initial judgement, in which a death penalty sentence

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is said to be strengthening his reign of terror.

A court in Chittagong convicted six people and sentenced them to death for killing a man in Kachua of

Two unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged on unknown charges at Choubindar, Qazv

Two men were given the death sentence by the High Court in Johor Baru after being found guilty of

A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh's independence war

Iran executed political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi and five other prisoners in a jail in Orumieh (Urmia),

A Lang Son court awarded death sentences to nine men and life to two others for smuggling a total of 280kg of heroin from the northern province to China in 2013 and 2014.

The United Nations’ human rights chief is urging the Maldives to stick to a decades-long moratorium on

Iran's regime hanged four men in two different prisons.