Rights groups say Cairo has stepped up execution campaign and now carries out third-most judicial killings globally

Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi, after 6 years on death row, were hanged in a prison in northwestern city of Maragheh

Military court run by Palestinian terror group says other 'informants' have been given life in prison or hard labor; 130 people have been sentenced to death in Strip since 2007

Amnesty International researcher says executions show 'the Syrian government’s disregard for international law, especially right to life'

'No one will tell us what our laws should be,' says Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, insisting that Afghanistan's revived legal code will again be guided by the Quran

Court documents show British citizen Alexanda Amon Kotey, whose cell murdered US-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and others, has a scheduled change of plea hearing

Amnesty says that while numbers dropped due to pandemic, figures for Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia show region is 'truly out of sync with the rest of the world'

Kingdom's Human Rights Commission says 27 sentenced to death last year, a decrease of 85% over 2019; drop partially due to moratorium on death penalty for drug offenses

Human Rights Watch laments 'systematic absence of fair trials,' says 15 of those put to death were involved in violence following Sissi's overthrow of democratically elected Morsi

Bloc says it will talk with Tehran authorities over case of Navid Afkari, executed for death of man during anti-government riots