a Sudanese court sentenced seventeen people to death in absentia, including a former Governor who is now a rebel leader, and another insurgent chief, said Al-Tigani Hassan, a lawyer who was present for the verdict in Singa town, the capital of Sennar State.

four United Nations experts on human rights – Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the situation of

Iran executed 331 people for drug-related charges in 2013, a new report published today by the non-profit

The Delhi high court has commuted the death sentence given to five people involved in the murder of a man,

a Yemeni court in Taizz sentenced 16 people to death, including MP Ahmad al-Barati from the General

The Osaka District Court sentenced a 52-year-old man to death for killing two people in two separate

Saudi King Abdullah ordered the execution of all qizas or death penalty cases to be deferred for three

an Afghani prisoner was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, reported the Human Rights Activists

the Supreme Court dismissed the Centre’s plea seeking review of its verdict holding that undue delay by the

One man was hanged in the central prison of Mashhad (Northern Iran) reported the daily newspaper

After 30 years behind bars - most of them on death row - Glenn Ford, walked free tonight from the

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his election.