Hengaw special report

Teimur Pouladvand, Nezam Moradi, Mahmoud Dehghan and Ali Akbar Younesi

Taliban have publicly flogged three people, including a woman, in separate incidents in northern and central Afghanistan, the group’s Supreme Court announced on June 18, 2025.

A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj four years ago.

A self-employed man, who received the capital punishment for trafficking in syabu, escaped the hangman’s noose after the Court of Appeal in Kota Kinabalu on June 17, 2025 substituted it with an imprisonment for life.

A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years’ jail in Singapore over drug trafficking offences that saw him avoid the death penalty by 0.01g, The Straits Times reported on June 12, 2025.