Execution

Iran on Friday hanged four people convicted of spying for arch foe Israel, the judiciary said, less than two weeks after authorities had executed a man on similar grounds. “Four members of a sabotage group related to the Zionist regime…
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An agent of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service was executed on Saturday in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province, the official IRNA news agency reported. “This person communicated with foreign services, specifically Mossad,…
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The United Nations said Tuesday it deplored the executions of a 17-year-old and a 22-year old man in Iran and urged Tehran to immediately stop applying the death penalty. The UN Human Rights Office said it was troubled by Friday’s…
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Iran has executed a 17-year-old convicted of murder, two rights groups said on Saturday, expressing outrage that the Islamic republic continues to hang people for crimes committed as minors. Hamidreza Azari was executed on Friday in…
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Iran executed five men by hanging on Wednesday after convicting them of gang raping a woman in the northwest of the country last year, the judiciary said. The “five men who had kidnapped and raped a woman in the city of Marand in May…
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The bodies of 16 people thought to have been abducted and executed by the Iran-backed Houthis more than a decade ago have been recovered in the northern Yemeni province of Amran. Human rights groups, media reports, and officials said the…
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Saudi Arabia on Monday announced the execution of five people in the Eastern Province convicted over their part in an attack on a house of worship. The men, four Saudis and an Egyptian national, were tried over the incident that took…
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A UN report on Monday strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices. In the past six months alone,…
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The United Nations said Friday it was “deeply concerned” by what it said were summary executions of prisoners of war by both Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield. The allegations come shortly after Kyiv accused Russian forces…
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Iran is executing members of ethnic minorities as a “tool of repression,” Amnesty International has claimed. In a report published alongside Iranian human rights organization the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, Amnesty said the regime had…
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