Japan’s controlling Democratic Party approved a draft law that would abolish the statute of limitations for
in 2009, at least 714 people were put to death in 18 countries and 2001 were
Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council upper house of Russian parliament, does
a Japanese court sentenced to death a man who murdered a former vice-minister and his
Hamas announced it will execute several men found guilty of collaborating with Israel
in a landmark judgement in a Haryana (India) honour killing case, a court awarded capital
Amnesty International is urging the EU to strongly and publicly condemn the two executions in Belarus from earlier this month.
a court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced 17 Indian nationals to death for killing a Pakistani man after a
a court in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Nguyen sentenced five people to death and fined
in southern China, the Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen announced that Xu
Botswana Prisons Service public relations officer Superintendent Ramolefhe confirmed that Modise
Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Radical parliamentarian
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
