British national Akmal Shaikh has exhausted all his appeals against his drug-smuggling conviction. According to the UK Foreign Office, he is scheduled to be executed ...
Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been charged with attempting to overthrow the state. For this, he could face the death penalty. Two others are facing the same ...
Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, two Iranian female converts to Christianity, were released from Evin Prison on 18 November 2009. Both have ...
Mosleh Zamani was hanged on Thursday morning, along with four other unidentified prisoners. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for allegedly raping his girlfriend ...
On 10 December, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Belarusian citizen Igor Koktysh, a male social activist, supporter of the Belarusian opposition and ...
A European Court of Human Rights ruling has called for the release of Belarusian opposition activist and musician Igor Koktysh, detained in Ukraine since 2007, ...
During the widespread unrest that followed the contested election result in June 2009, thousands of people were arbitrarily arrested, dozens were killed on the ...
Lebanese national 'Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man,could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by theappeal and Supreme Courts.
