By bnm Gulf bureau Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were responsible for the overall rise in known executions, accounting for ...

The number of executions in Saudi Arabia doubled in 2024 as the Middle East led a global surge, according to a new report by ...

Iran, Saudia Arabia and Iraq accounted for 90% of the recorded cases and were responsible for the steep spike. Iran topped ...

Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were responsible for the overall rise in known ... Hakamada Iwao – who spent nearly five decades ...

The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty ...

The rights group said that drug-related offences accounted for more than 40 per cent of all executions globally.

The number of people known to have been executed last year was the highest in almost a decade, with Iran, Iraq and Saudi ...

Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International today as ...

According to Amnesty International's report, 91 per cent of known death sentences have been handed down in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. There is no reliable data for China, North Korea and Vietnam ...

Iran topped the list. It put at least 972 people to death, up from 853 the year before. In Saudi Arabia figures doubled to at least 345 — the most ever recorded for the country by the human ...