executions
Executions aren’t new in Iran, but this time they’re different
Middle East
January 14, 2023
Executions aren’t new in Iran, but this time they’re different
New York and Amman CNN — The Islamic Republic of Iran has long ranked among the world’s top executioners. But…
Opinion: Iran’s most powerful weapon isn’t working
Features/Interviews
January 11, 2023
Opinion: Iran’s most powerful weapon isn’t working
“Dad, my sentence is death,” Mohammad Mehdi Karami informed his father in a phone call from prison last month. Then,…
Report: Mideast countries top 2020 global executioners list
Middle East
April 21, 2021
Report: Mideast countries top 2020 global executioners list
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apart from China and despite a worldwide drop in death sentences, countries in the…
Three Saudi youths get prison sentence instead of death
Middle East
February 8, 2021
Three Saudi youths get prison sentence instead of death
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three young Saudi men who faced death sentences for acts they were accused of…
Dramatic drop in Saudi executions after laws changed in 2020
Middle East
January 18, 2021
Dramatic drop in Saudi executions after laws changed in 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world’s most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the…
Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression
Middle East
February 6, 2020
Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as “a…
U.N. expert chides France over jihadist captives in Iraq
Middle East
August 13, 2019
U.N. expert chides France over jihadist captives in Iraq
PARIS (Reuters) – A U.N. investigator rebuked France on Monday for its possible role in the transfer of seven suspected…
Albanians unearth dark past searching for communism’s victims
World
May 7, 2019
Albanians unearth dark past searching for communism’s victims
After years of scouring documents, tapes and then the slopes of a mountain above Tirana, Jovan Plaku found the remains…
Some executed in Saudi Arabia had protested their innocence
Middle East
April 30, 2019
Some executed in Saudi Arabia had protested their innocence
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)–Long before Saudi Arabia announced it had carried out one of the largest mass executions in its history…
Saudi Arabia executes 37 citizens for ‘terrorism’
Middle East
April 24, 2019
Saudi Arabia executes 37 citizens for ‘terrorism’
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed 37 of its citizens who had been convicted of “terrorism,” the Interior Ministry said. The death penalty…