Two men were hanged in the province of Lorestan, west of Iran, early this week.
twelve Islamic extremists were sentenced to death in Lebanon for terrorism.
in Iran, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi denied reports that Mohammad Amin
a Sudanese driver convicted of murdering his Saudi Arabian employer has
According to the web site of the Public Relations Office of the Khuzestan Court House
a North Korean has been publicly executed for using a mobile phone to tell a defector friend
Michael Sigala was executed in Texas. Sigala, 32, hispanic, was condemned in 2001 for the August
the fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty concluded today in Geneva. It was organised by
a military court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, sentenced Firmin Yangambi, 41,
An Iranian opposition-run Web site says an appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a student who
Justices Imman Ali and Abdul Awal of the Bangladeshi High Court declared all
the cabinet in Bangladesh approved in principle the Border Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010, keeping a
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
