DUBAI, Feb 21: A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison over tweets alleging prison torture in his country and misconduct in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, despite wide international criticism of his trial.

LAHORE, Feb 17: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced a suspected serial killer to death for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, a prosecutor said.

NEW DELHI, August 21: A Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 10 leaders and activists from a banned Islamist group for a plot in 2000 to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting bombs at one of her rallies.

CAIRO, June 17: An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced to death 31 Islamists for their part in the June 2015 assassination of the country's top prosecutor, Hisham Barakat.

NEW DELHI, May 9: The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday sentenced Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan to six months in jail while holding him guilty of contempt.

ISLAMABAD, April 10: Pakistan's military sentenced an Indian naval officer to death Monday on charges of espionage and sabotage, officials said.

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KASHMIR, Oct 13: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Thursday confirmed the death sentences of 10 terrorists, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.

NEW DELHI, Aug 10:  A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh's independence war against Pakistan in 1971 on Wednesday sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison for murder and other crimes.

CAIRO, June 19: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

CAIRO, June 18: An Egyptian court has sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.