Afghanistan's government has backed away from a proposal to reintroduce public stoning as a punishment for adultery after the leak of a draft law stirred up a storm of international condemnation.
Five prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons today.
In the UAE, a Criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah sentenced two Emirati men to death after they were
At least four people were executed by hanging between 12 and 18 November 2013, the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS) reported.
The 35 year-old Christian Younis Masih was released today in Pakistan, with a decision on behalf
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ahadollah Mahmoudi
Today was held in Rome, at the headquarters of Hands Off Cain, a press conference to update the media on developments in the case of Anthony Farina.
The court of appeal of the city of Casablanca, Morocco, sentenced the murderer and rapist
Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling drugs to the ultra-conservative
Four prisoners were hanged in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas today, reported the
A 36-year-old Thai woman was sent to the gallows at High Court in Alor Setar, Malaysia
According to reliable sources in Iran eleven prisoners, among them one woman, were
