Ahmad Jannati, Secretary of the iranian clerical regime’s Guardian Council and a leading figure in the faction affiliated to Khamenei, reiterated in his Friday prayers sermon on the need to uphold the “velayat-e faqih” (absolute rule of clergy), State-run news agencies reported.

a subcommittee of the Legislative Council proposed abolishment of the statute of limitations for crimes

the Malaysian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Filipino Nelson Tanoja, 55, for smuggling 508.6

Bangladesh executed five former military officers for their role in the 1975 massacre of the

the Indian Supreme Court asked judges to punish kidnappers hard, mentioning that the law allows awarding

Two of the people who have been sentenced to death in connection to the post-election protests in Iran, were hanged early this morning.

Judge Fahmy Moumir Fahmy of the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced

Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of murdering a top judiciary official in the central city of Isfahan, Fars

two Indian nationals were sentenced to death in Dubai for slashing the throat of Indian sales executive

A Chinese court sentenced four more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting in July last year

Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was executed in Iraq for crimes against humanity, a government spokesman said.

Mohsen bin Mohammed bin Saleh al-Mokhles was beheaded by the sword in Dammam in the east of the kingdom for trafficking in hashish according to a Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.