executions

November 18, 2025

His family say he was a fisherman. The Saudis say he smuggled drugs. He was one of hundreds executed this year

For a year, Mohamed Saad’s family had no idea whether he was alive or dead. The 28-year-old Egyptian fisherman had…

December 29, 2024

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Reuters — Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto…

January 14, 2023

New York and Amman CNN — The Islamic Republic of Iran has long ranked among the world’s top executioners. But…

January 11, 2023

“Dad, my sentence is death,” Mohammad Mehdi Karami informed his father in a phone call from prison last month. Then,…

April 21, 2021

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apart from China and despite a worldwide drop in death sentences, countries in the…

February 8, 2021

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three young Saudi men who faced death sentences for acts they were accused of…

January 18, 2021

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world’s most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the…

February 6, 2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as “a…

August 13, 2019

PARIS (Reuters) – A U.N. investigator rebuked France on Monday for its possible role in the transfer of seven suspected…

World

May 7, 2019

After years of scouring documents, tapes and then the slopes of a mountain above Tirana, Jovan Plaku found the remains…