Saudi Arabia executed two men, the interior ministry said in a statement cited by the official
Justice John Bosco Katutsihe of the Ugandan High Court, sitting in Rukungiri district,
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorist Court Special Judge Mian Anwar Nazir sentenced
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorist Court Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad
a man identified as Jamshid, 48, was hanged in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan for raping a
According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, Abdolmalek Rigi, the former leader of the armed Baluchi group Jondollah, was hanged.
Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Vietnam's communist-dominated National Assembly voted to replace firing squads
Somali Islamist militants executed two football fans and arrested dozens of others for
the Ethiopian Federal High Court sentenced former regional official Jemua
in the United Arab Emirates, the Fujairah Court of Appeal commuted the death
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