TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) Head of Supreme Human Rights Council of Iran has told a Brazilian daily the Council will come to a definitive results in review of capital punishment for major drug smuggling convicts.
Mohammad JavadLarijani who is in Brazil sat in an interview to countrys famous newspaper O Estado de So Paulo on Friday, to cover diverse issues ...
6% of death row inmates globally are in U.S. prisons according to Amnesty International
The number of capital punishment executions carried out globally surged in 2015 to the highest in 25 years, according to a new report published by UK-based human rights group Amnesty International.
Executions worldwide rose by 54% from the previous year, to ...
Tehran, December 17, The Iran Project- An imprisoned woman devotedthemoney, wasdonatedto pay her own debts after six years of imprisonment, to savingher cellmate's life from the death penalty in a prison in Tehran.
A 34-year-old woman, who had been convicted of murdering her husband in a criminal case about 11 years ago and was expectedto hang on ...
Irans Supreme Court on Monday nullified an execution sentence against an Iranian-American man accused of spying for the CIA.
Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei told reporters on Monday that the defendant has objected to the verdict handed down by the lower court and the Supreme Court has nullified the verdict, ordering a retrial....
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Head of Russian Duma to visit Iran
Chairman of Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, heading a delegation, is due to travel to Tehran in mid-October, an official said here on Saturday.
Zarif, Kerry, Ashton to meet in Oman in early November
Irans Foreign Minister ...
[caption id="attachment_35959" align="alignright" width="159"] Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani[/caption]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Responding to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran, a senior official in the Islamic Republic is saying that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug ...
Iran publicly hanged a man known as the girl hunter after he said he murdered two women, the officialIslamic Republic News Agencyreported.
The man was hanged at 6:20 a.m. local time today in Tehran, the capital, IRNA said.
The individual, who was identified only as Ali, confessed during interrogations to killing two women and wounding five others,...
TEHRAN An eerie silence filled the air as a crowd of around 300 gathered Sunday just before sunrise in a Tehran park. They awaited the arrival of two young men who were about to die.
The condemned stood shoulder to shoulder, motionless, in front of two police trucks with two nooses hanging from extendable cranes, about 15 feet high. Black-clad executioners ...
AFP -Iran hanged two men in public, after a video posted on YouTube last month showed them assaulting a man in a Tehran street with a machete, the ISNA news agency reported.
The sentence, issued by the Revolutionary Court and confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court, was carried out in Tehran at 6:30 am (0300 GMT) on Sunday and before "a crowd of nearly ...
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