a Filipino male overseas worker identified only as Joseph from Mexico, Pampanga, was sentenced
Hamas said it would continue to carry out executions in the Gaza Strip, rejecting criticism by human rights groups and some Western governments.
A court in central China's Hubei Province sentenced a woman to death and another two
a female protester arrested in the Ashura protests in Iran in 2009 was sentenced to
four United Arab Emirates nationals were sentenced to death for raping and
Judge Nayef Samarat of the Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced a 24 year old male driver, identified as
Three men were hanged in public in the northern Iranian city of Babolsar, reported
Hamas said it executed two Palestinians convicted by a Gaza military court of collaborating with Israel.
Zimbabwe is searching for a hangman. Chikurubi prison, a maximum
Iran publicly hanged a man and amputated the limbs of another for armed robbery in
Three men were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, in central Iran, reported the state run news agency Fars.
Three people were hanged in the prison of Taibad (Taybad) northeastern Iran, reported the
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
