The Abu Dhabi court has ordered death penalty for the killer of 11-year-old boy, Azan, bringing justice to the family. The court of First Instance handed the execution order to the 33-year-old Pakistan man.

Saudi Arabia executed six Yemeni men convicted of murder and robbery and a Saudi man for smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said.

A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.

According to a report by HRANA News Agency which is also confirmed by Iran Human Rights (IHR), on the morning three prisoners were executed at Tabriz Central Prison on murder charges.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced to death seven terrorists of the Daesh-affiliated "Matrouh cell" on charges of beheading 21 Egyptian Copts working in Libya in February 2015.

According to a close source, a prisoner was executed at Rajai Shahr Prison charged with Moharebeh (waging war against God).

The Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence issued against detainee Hussein Marzouq, who was accused by the authorities of being behind a bombing that resulted in the death of Fakhriya Muslim.

November 23, 2017: UAE authorities executed Nidal Eisa Abdullah, the convict who raped and killed eight-year-old boy Obaida in May 2016, local media reported.

The Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ); Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, added two entities and 11 individuals to its blacklist.

A Dhaka court sentenced a man to death in a case filed on charges of killing his wife over a family dispute in 2016.

A Dhaka court convicted six alleged war criminals, including former Gaibandha lawmaker Abu Saleh Muhammad AbdulAziz Miah alias Ghoramara Aziz, and sentenced them to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Five officers of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan were sentenced to death by a military court on charges of murder, the defense officials said.