June 10, 2022 07:21 am
BAKHMUT, June 10: Two British citizens and a Moroccan were sentenced to death Thursday for fighting on Ukraine’s side, in a punishment handed down by the country’s pro-Moscow rebels.
February 16, 2021 16:15 pm
INDIA, Feb 16: The principal and a teacher of a school in Patna city of the Indian State of Bihar have been awarded death sentence and imprisonment for life, respectively, by a court for the rape of a Grade 5 student.
December 23, 2019 15:32 pm
RIYADH, Dec 23: Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Monday five people had been sentenced to death and three more to jail terms totalling 24 years in the case of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October last year.
December 19, 2019 20:00 pm
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Pakistan government has found fault with a special court’s death sentence for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, apparently taking sides in a split between the military and the judiciary, and the general’s lawyers said he plans to appeal.
November 27, 2019 15:31 pm
DHAKA, Nov 27 : A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group on Wednesday for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation’s worst such incident.
October 24, 2019 12:48 pm
DHAKA, Oct 24:The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.
July 17, 2019 19:55 pm
THE HAGUE, July 17: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty given in 2017 to former Indian navy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav who was convicted of being a spy, a document published on the court’s website showed.
June 2, 2019 16:00 pm
BAGHDAD, June 2: An Iraqi court sentenced two French men to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of being members of Islamic State, a prosecutor told Reuters.
November 21, 2018 14:30 pm
NEW DELHI, Nov 21: An Indian court Tuesday handed down the first death sentence over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that left nearly 3,000 dead following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
October 31, 2018 12:30 pm
PAKISTAN, Oct 31: Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian mother facing execution for blasphemy in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence and reached as far as the Vatican.