Judge Fahmy Moumir Fahmy of the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced
Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of murdering a top judiciary official in the central city of Isfahan, Fars
two Indian nationals were sentenced to death in Dubai for slashing the throat of Indian sales executive
A Chinese court sentenced four more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting in July last year
Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was executed in Iraq for crimes against humanity, a government spokesman said.
Mohsen bin Mohammed bin Saleh al-Mokhles was beheaded by the sword in Dammam in the east of the kingdom for trafficking in hashish according to a Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
North Korean authorities have executed three people, sent three other family members to a political
at a court in Bossasso, in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in Somalia, Judge Sheikh Abdirizak
the Angolan Parliament approved a new Constitution that explicitly prohibits the death penalty in article 59.
One man was hanged in the prison of Ardebil, northwestern Iran, reported the official Iranian news agency
a court in Vietnam’s northern Lai Chau province sentenced six people to
The US Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a convicted murderer,
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
