World
-
Africa
9/2/2024 8:36:53 PM
At least 10 protesters in Nigeria faced a possible death penalty on Monday after being charged with treason over their participation in recent demonstrations against the country’s worst-in-a-generation economic crisis.
|
World
-
International
8/1/2024 9:56:47 AM
US prosecutors have reached a deal with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pentagon said Wednesday, reportedly involving a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding a death penalty trial.
|
World
-
Region
4/4/2024 12:31:36 PM
Sudan's prosecution accused on Wednesday former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok of "inciting war against the state" and other charges that could carry the death penalty, according to state television.
|
World
-
Region
2/22/2023 6:00:01 PM
Germany said Wednesday that it was expelling two diplomats from the Iranian embassy in Berlin in response to the death sentence an Iranian court handed down against an Iranian-German national.
|
World
-
Region
2/21/2023 3:44:14 PM
An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial.
|
World
-
Region
1/27/2023 7:25:54 PM
Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far in 2023, a rights group said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country.
|
World
-
International
1/10/2023 11:42:50 AM
Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations "demanding greater respect for the dignity of women.''
|
World
-
Region
12/8/2022 1:14:12 PM
Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.
|
World
-
Region
11/26/2022 6:10:07 PM
The family of an Iranian rapper detained for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death said his life was at risk after he went on trial behind closed doors on Saturday.
|
World
-
Region
11/1/2022 1:53:28 PM
Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty.
|
World
-
Region
6/24/2022 7:05:09 PM
Saudi authorities have released a member of the country's Shia minority who was arrested at age 13 and had risked the death penalty, a human rights group said on Friday.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Diplomacy
6/12/2022 1:48:39 PM
The UK's government Sunday came under pressure to win the release of a Moroccan man who has been sentenced to death alongside two Britons by a pro-Russian court in Ukraine.
|
Egypt
-
Courts & Law
1/5/2022 4:27:22 PM
Ismailiia criminal court sentenced on Wednesday Abdel-Rahman Nazmy — nicknamed ‘Dabour’ — to death for decapitating his neighbour and attempting to murder two others in October of 2021.
|
Egypt
-
Courts & Law
1/3/2022 12:29:00 AM
Egypt’s Court of Cassation commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.
|
Egypt
-
Politics
6/14/2021 5:00:40 PM
Those receiving final death penalty sentences include senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed El-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy, and Abdel-Rahman El-Bar
|
World
-
International
3/22/2021 9:08:07 PM
The Justice Department, before Trump left office, filed an appeal of a lower court’s decision ordering a new trial over the sentence Tsarnaev should receive for the death penalty-eligible crimes for which he was convicted
|
World
-
International
1/12/2021 10:54:25 AM
Lisa Montgomery faced execution Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, just eight days before President-elect Joe Biden, an opponent of the federal death penalty, takes office
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
World
11/20/2020 1:15:00 PM
The debate over capital punishment in Tunisia has entered a new phase after a series of violent crimes in Tunis
|
Egypt
-
Politics
7/1/2020 7:01:56 PM
|
Egypt
-
Politics
12/22/2019 3:24:34 PM
The case stirred controversy in Egypt, with many calling for the murderers of Mahmoud El-Banna to be tried as adults and face the death penalty
|