In Nigeria, an Owerri High Court sentenced eight persons to death by hanging.
Eight people have been hanged in Iran in the last days.
Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis and displayed their bodies in public for killing a national and forming a gang that committed robberies across several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
two kidnappers involved in the murder of an 11-year-old boy were hanged in western Herat province
Iran hanged two convicted spies, one found guilty of working for Israel, the other for the United States, the Tehran prosecutor's office announced.
Indonesia has executed three convicted murderers, an official said, the second time that the
A Saudi man escaped a sentence of paralysis for stabbing and paralysing another man by offering him
One man was hanged publicly in Noshahr (northern Iran) for murder.
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang sentenced to death a woman convicted
A drug manufacturer based in Britain has vowed to add new restrictions to sales of its products
ten people were hanged in the cities of Karaj and Rasht, Iran.
The family of an ageing Saudi man murdered by an Indonesian housemaid at his home urged
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
