Friday 14 March 2014

Saudi delays execution of seven men



Executions jump in 2011, driven by ME: Amnesty

The number of executions carried out around the world jumped last year, largely due to a surge in use of the death penalty in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.      The rights gro


UN chief alarmed over Syria atrocities

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received 'grisly reports' that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in the battle-scarred city of Homs after rebel fighters had fled. Ban


Russia appeals to Iraq to not execute Aziz

Russia called on Iraq on Wednesday not to carry out the death sentence on Tareq Aziz on humanitarian grounds, its foreign ministry said. The Vatican has also appealed against the sentence which was passed by Iraq's high tribunal on Tuesday

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