Most executions were for drug-related offences, but political dissidents and people connected with mass protests in 2022 were ...

The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said on Monday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught ...

A new report claimed Iran executed an unprecedented number of people in 2024. Most of the executions took place following the election of its new president in late July.

Iran executed at least 31 women in 2024, marking the highest number recorded in a year since 2008, according to the NGO Iran ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...

On the wall of Dr Jim Swire and his wife’s bedroom hangs a painting of their daughter, Flora. She’s smiling, dressed in white ...

Italian journalist Laura Silvia Battaglia, who has extensive experience in Yemen, told The Media Line, “The situation is much ...

DUBAI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Italian ambassador on Friday over the detention of an Iranian national wanted by the United States for his alleged role in a deadly ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. One of the many complex foreign policy problems that Donald Trump will inherit ...

but they’re hearing rumours that the ayatollah and the government in Tehran wants to talk to the Americans to try and find a way out of this and perhaps hang on. And they’re saying that there’s ...