Anti-corruption activist Faustin Ndikumana was arrested on 7 February and charged with making "false declarations". He had alleged that some magistrates had got ...
In Iran, the second highest user of the death penalty, suspects are sometimes forced to appear television to "confess" to alleged crimes before being sentenced ...
Na'el Jamal Qandil Doghmosh, Hazem Hilmi Herez and one other man known only as “FTW” were executed by hanging in the Gaza Strip on 17 July. At least one of them ...
Even though most of the world has turned its back on the death penalty, some countries continue to impose capital punishment for acts like having consensual sexual ...
10 October 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of the World Day Against the Death Penalty. As the United Nations General Assembly prepares to consider ...
