A court in the Suez Canal governorate of Ismailia, in Egypt, sentenced 14 militant Islamists to death
One prisoner was hanged in public in the Northwestern Iranian province of Azarbaijan.
Iraq has executed nearly 100 people so far this year, a big increase over previous years
The latest statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), released today, found
According to official and unofficial reports from Iran, at least six prisoners were executed in three different prisons today.
In Zimbabwe, a man who hacked a three-year-old girl to death last year
Bahrain’s foreign minister says the government has agreed to ease its treatment of political activists
In India, a court pronounced capital punishment upon Jasvir Singh (37) of Kallowal village
Amos Mbedzi was spared the death penalty by Swaziland High Court Judge Bheki Maphalala
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani national in the holy city of Medina after convicting him of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said.
In Malaysia, the High Court sentenced a woman and three men to life imprisonment
In Thailand, the Supreme Court upheld the Appeals Court's death sentence for
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
