Hosni Mubarak, toppled by an uprising last year after 30 years ruling Egypt, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in killing protesters after a trial that sets a precedent for holding Middle East autocrats to account.

At least nine prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran, reported unofficial reports from Iran.

In India, a fast track court sentenced a 22-year-old man to death for raping and killing

In India, Home Minister P Chidambaram told his monthly press conference that the death sentence of three more prisoners, including a man convicted for rape and murder of a five-year-old girl, were commuted to life imprisonment by President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

An Indian national was sentenced to the gallows by the High Court in Malaysia after he was

The appeals court in Kuwait upheld the death sentence for a Kuwaiti housewife for murdering her Filipina

A Congolese military court slapped 13 officers with sentences ranging from two years

May 30, 2012: In Nigeria, a High Court in Abakaliki sentenced three men to death by hanging for robbery.

The Malaysian government has pardoned three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on death

The Fujairah Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence of an Emirati for stabbing an Arab

since the beginning of the 20th century, an estimated 3 % of all executions in the United

A maid who killed her employer and the woman's two-year-old child will face a firing squad