a 43-year-old factory supervisor was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for drug trafficking.
Vietnam has charged a well-known human rights lawyer and his associates with subversion, a charge that
Three men were hanged in the prison of Zahedan, capital of the southeast Iranian province of Sistan-
The Second Palestinian National Conference for the Abolition of the Death Penalty concluded in Ramallah,
Saudi Arabian national Khaled bin Saleh al-Owfi was beheaded by the sword in Mecca after being convicted of stabbing his father to death.
According to unofficial sources from Iran, Mosleh Zamani (20) was hanged in the Dizelabad prison of
Belarus isn’t excluding the introduction of the moratorium on the death penalty, but it needs more time.
Iran publicly hanged Mohammad Sadegh, 27, in the northern town of Noor, the Vatan Emrouz newspaper
The Swedish presidency on behalf of the European Union called on the governments of all countries which
Matthew Eric Wrinkles was executed at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Wrinkles, 49, white, was
five people have been recently executed in Iran for murder and armed robbery.
a woman in southwest China, Zhao Qingmei, was executed in Guizhou province after her
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