Five people have been hanged in Tehran during the past few days.
Radical Deputies and Senators presented in the Italian Parliament a motion on the death
One person was hanged in the city of Ahvaz, southwest of Iran, convicted of acts against
Iraq's high tribunal passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.
a man and a woman were sentenced to death in Nairobi, Kenya, after being found guilty
Pakistanis Kahram Shah Zad and Mohammed Abdulqadeer were executed in Riyadh, Saudi
the Taiwan Banciao District Court sentenced Jiang Yun-ching, 39, to death three times
A Texas man convicted for the slayings of an elderly couple found brutally beaten and stabbed
Four men were lashed 75 times each in public in the northeastern Iranian town of Gonbad
a military court in Iran's northwestern Kordestan Province sentenced Abdollah Sarvari, an
a Mauritanian court sentenced to death the head of a militant group linked to al Qaeda's North African wing.
the Fujairah Federal Court of Appeal commuted the death sentence awarded to a man
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
