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‘Dear mom, don’t cry,’ hanged Iranian woman says in last message
Reyhaneh Jabbari was executed Saturday in Iran for killing a man she claimed tried ...
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U.S. condemns Iran’s execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari
‘There were serious concerns with the fairness of the trial,’ a U.S. State ...
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Father of UK journalist pleads ISIS to free son
John Cantlie appeared in a video released last month by ISIS
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Wife of Briton held by ISIS renews plea for his release
Henning begged her husband’s captors to spare his life again after her first ...
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Algeria identifies suspects in Frenchman’s beheading
Prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for the identified kidnappers and ...
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Iran postpones execution of woman
A Tehran court found Reyhaneh Jabbari guilty in 2009 of killing a former employee ...
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HRW: more ISIS execution sites found in Iraq
Human Rights Watch reports three more mass execution sites in Tikrit, bringing ...
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Saudi Arabia executes two for murder, drug trafficking
Meshari al-Oteibi was beheaded in Riyadh for the murder of a fellow Saudi national
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Executions rise worldwide in 2013
Iraq had the highest number of executions since the 2013 fall of Saddam Hussein
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Iran executes man convicted of ‘enmity against God’
Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani was hanged despite international pressure on the ...
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Kim Jong-Un’s ‘executed ex-lover’ is apparently alive and well
Her appearance came after months of speculation about whether or not she was alive
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Yemen troops ambushed by al-Qaeda suspects found executed
Yemen security forces launched an offensive against militant bastions in Shabwa ...
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Iran: 'Blood money' saved 358 from death penalty
Iranian media have in recent weeks published details of several capital cases in ...
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Iran hangs three Balouchi men over prosecutor’s murder
According to the United Nations, more than 170 people have been executed in Iran ...
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Mercy for Iranian woman on death row if she tells ‘truth’
The U.N. says that more than 170 people have been executed in Iran since the ...
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Mother spares life of son’s killer with slap in Iran
The mother forgave the murderer Balal after a rare public campaign to save his ...
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Executions surge in Iran - evidence of Rowhani's ‘moderate’ rule?
Rowhani has not delivered on his promises of improving Iran's human rights
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Barbaric punishments, executions under ‘moderate’ Rowhani
Despite trying to amplify a ‘moderate’ public image, hundreds of people have been ...
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On crime and punishment in Iran
According to the U.N., Iran takes second place, after China, as one of the world' ...
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Iran's moderate mask and the execution of a poet
The execution of at least 80 people by the regime over the past two months has not ...
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Did Kim Jong-Un execute his slain uncle’s entire family?
A report suggests the North Korean leader did not stop at his uncle, executing his ...
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Ministry: Iraq executes 11 more ‘terrorism’ convicts
The men were executed just days after another mass execution of 26 convicts
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A day to save Bangladesh
Bangladesh may now be only a day away from an intractable crisis
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Iran executes Ahwazi Arab activists accused of enmity against God
The Iranian judiciary had accused the activists of enmity against God, and of ...
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Iraq executes 12 ‘terror’ convicts amid surging unrest
The executions bring to at least 144 of the total number of people put to death by ...
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U.N. rights office condemns ‘obscene’ Iraqi executions
The U.N. rights office Friday condemned Iraq’s “obscene” ...
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Iraq executes 23 people in two days
Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on ...
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