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CNN — Iran executed at least 582 people last year, a 75% increase on the previous year, according to human...
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CNN — The US State Department said Thursday it is “disappointed” by a Chinese court’s decision to uphold the death...
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Malaysia’s parliament on Monday passed sweeping legal reforms to remove the mandatory death penalty, trim the number of offenses punishable...
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CNN — Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday approved some of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, making some crimes punishable by death...
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Tokyo CNN — The world’s longest-serving death row convict was on Monday granted a retrial by a Japanese court in...
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CNN — A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has told CNN that while a brutal state crackdown has succeeded in...
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DUBAI: Executions in Saudi Arabia have nearly doubled under King Salman and his son, de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman,...
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Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside...
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CNN — Alireza Akbari, a dual British-Iranian citizen and former Iranian official, has been sentenced to death in Iran for...
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CNN — The executions on Saturday of two young men in Iran, one a karate champion, the other a volunteer...