A Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced five men to death for joining a 14-strong gang to
China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office
Two young men were hanged publicly in Qazvin (west of Tehran) this morning.
It was confirmed that no execution would be carried out in 2011, the first time in 19
The public execution for a prisoner was carried out on the dawn in the Danesh Square
Five prisoners were executed in the prison of Shahrud (Semnan province northern Iran
the number of inmates on death row at Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison, Zambia, has swelled
three Indonesian migrant workers facing death penalty in Saudi Arabia had been freed by the authority
Two local courts in China have sentenced to death two men on charges of trafficking and manufacturing
According to reliable sources from Iran nine prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran, early this morning.
Parliamentary approval was accorded in India to a bill that makes acts of terrorism aimed
the Iranian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience, to life in prison.
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
