One North Korean woman described how her father died of starvation. Another said her friends were publicly executed for watching and sharing South Korean television dramas. North Korea’s ambassador appeared unmoved. When he got up to speak, he described it as a political scheme and labeled the women as “human scum.”

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that 14 individuals, including one woman, were publicly flogged across four provinces of Afghanistan.

At least nine physically disabled male prisoners are currently on death row across Punjab’s 43 operational jails, according to official data released by the office of IGP Prisons.

Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has granted unconditional state pardon to 11 convicted persons who were on death row.