Saudi authorities have executed four citizens in the last days, after they were convicted of murder in separate
the Iranian regime's authorities hanged a group of eight prisoners in the main prison of Bandar Abbas,
Egypt's Grand Mufti has commuted the death sentence handed to the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader,
Japan executed two multiple killers, bringing to 11 the total number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.
in a 45-page report issued in Geneva, UN investigators said the Syrian government and Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents were both committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
between 23 and 26 August 2014, twelve people were sentenced to death on terrorism-related charges in two separate cases.
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