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IRAN
Iran executes young Iranian Kurd despite global outcry
Iran on Thursday executed an Iranian Kurd arrested at the age of 17 for belonging to the rebel Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) and involvement in armed confrontations with…
EGYPT
Egypt sentences 183 Brotherhood supporters to death
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement to death on Monday over the killing of police officers during unrest in 2013.
INDONESIA
Fury as Indonesia executes foreigners by firing squad
Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia and expressed fury Sunday after Jakarta defied their pleas and executed six convicted drugs offenders by…
DOCUMENTARY
Young Iranians living on the edge
In Iran, penalties for drinking, dancing or partying can be severe: heavy fines, imprisonment, even death by hanging. Two out of three Iranians are under 30 years old. Now,…
USA
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Boston bombing suspect
US prosecutors on Thursday said they will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is found guilty of planting the two bombs that killed three and injured more than 260…
PAKISTAN
Protests, executions follow Pakistan school attack
As protesters took to the streets in many Pakistani cities to denounce last week’s deadly Peshawar school attack, the government is taking a tough line on terrorism. But will…
PAKISTAN
Pakistan restarts executions after Peshawar school attack
Pakistan hanged two convicted militants Friday in its first executions since 2008, officials said, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty this week…
USA
US prisoner freed after 39 years on death row
A 57-year-old US prisoner who was sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit walked free from court on Friday after spending 39 years behind bars, prosecutors said.
IRAN
Iran hangs woman in defiance of international campaign
Iran hanged Saturday a woman convicted of murdering a former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her, defying international appeals for a stay of…
CHINA
China executes Tiananmen Square attack 'masterminds'
China has executed eight people for "terrorist attacks," including three it described as "masterminding" a suicide car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013, state media…
SUDAN
Pope meets Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan
Pope Francis met privately on Thursday at the Vatican with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, which was commuted in June.
USA
Botched Arizona execution takes nearly two hours
Arizona inmate Joseph Wood reportedly gasped over 600 times before succumbing to a lethal injection on Wednesday, adding yet another flawed execution to a recent series that has…
EGYPT