CIA spy sentenced to death in Iran
Tasnim – Iran’s Judiciary spokesman said three men have received prison sentences for espionage and a fourth one has been sentenced to…
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Law of retaliation for acid attacks perpetrators: Majlis
IRNA – The Iranian Majlis on Monday passed a bill to punish perpetrators of acid attacks with death penalty or eye to…
Four Iran environmentalists could face death penalty
AFP – Four detained Iranian environmental activists could face the death penalty after the charges levelled against them were changed, the Tehran…
Saudi Arabia plans to execute first female political activist
Independent – Public prosecutor’s decision sets a ‘dangerous precedent’ for women activists in the kingdom, human rights watchdog says Human rights activists…
Prison sentence to replace death penalty for drug dealers
MNA – Member of the Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Commission Ali Bakhtiar said the capital punishment for drug traffickers was commuted to…
Is Erdogan really serious about bringing back death penalty?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to respond to calls from his supporters for the plotters of the July 15 attempted coup to…
Iranian justice minister calls for revision of death penalty laws
According to a report by ICANA, as translated by IFP, Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that death penalty can’t be removed,…
It matters ‘who’ carries out execution: Iran or Saudi Arabia
August 8, The Iran Project – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein in a statement released on August 5…
Iran top MP defends execution of terrorists
August 8, The Iran Project – A senior Iranian lawmaker defended the execution of a number of terrorists, saying Iran’s measure was…
Erdogan ‘to approve revival of death penalty in case of parliament ratification’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he would approve the revival of the death penalty if the parliament opts to reintroduce the…
Death penalty would bar Turkey’s EU membership: Mogherini
EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has warned that Turkey would be barred from joining the bloc if it reintroduces the death penalty…
Turkey’s Erdogan hints at reintroduction of death penalty
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that the country may reintroduce the death penalty to allow the execution of those involved…
Debate on rescinding death penalty for drug trade
More than 70 lawmakers signed a petition earlier this month proposing the abolition of the death penalty in unorganized drug trafficking crimes.…
Iranian imprisoned woman sacrifices to save cellmate’s life from death penalty
Tehran, December 17, The Iran Project- An imprisoned woman devoted the money, was donated to pay her own debts after six years of imprisonment, to saving her…
Iran considers ending death penalty for drug offenses
Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council, said that Iran is looking to end the death penalty for drug related cases,…
Iran says ‘blood money’ saved 358 from death penalty
The practice, made possible under the Islamic sharia law of diya (restitution), allows a convict to be pardoned by a victim’s family…
Denmark indirectly supporting Iranian drug executions
By supporting a UN anti-drug programme operating in Iran, Denmark may be helping Iranian authorities arrest and execute suspected drug users and…
Iran sentences 4 to death over bank embezzlement: report
TEHRAN, Feb. 17 — Iran’s Supreme Court confirmed Sunday death sentences for four people involved in a big embezzlement case, official IRNA…
Today’s top headlines in Iran, 23-01-2013
Today’s top headlines in Iran include Iranian lawmakers plan to impeach labor minister; Head of Iran’s Judiciary remarks over public hanging of…
Widespread reactions to public hanging of machete attackers in Iran
The public execution of two men, whose mugging of a man in broad daylight on Tehran’s streets caught on a video and…
Iran hangs 5 rapists in public: report
Five rapists were hanged in a park in Iran’s southwestern city of Yasouj on Thursday morning, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.…
US sides with Iran and N. Korea in record UN vote over the death penalty
By The Telegraph A record 110 countries on Monday backed a resolution voted every two years at a UN General Assembly committee…
Malekpour and different dimensions of his case
Malekpour, a web programmer from Canada was sentenced to death on charges “insulting and desecrating Islam”. Human rights groups and Media…
Possible victory in the fight against the imposition of the Death Penalty in Iran
An informed source in Iran’s Supreme Court says the Court has not handed down its final verdict in the case of an…
Saeed Malekpour on the threshold of the execution
Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web programmer with Canadian residency has been sentenced to death, on charges of “corrupting the earth”. Since Malekpour…