In a rare statement from a Western government, France condemned Iran's taking of hostages to serve as blackmail to extract concessions from the west, including 4 French citizens, for whom the country ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Amnesty International on Tuesday slammed Iraqi authorities for an “alarming lack of transparency” over the execution of 11 prisoners on the same day for “terrorism” charges, ...
A court in the Siberian city of Omsk has sentenced psychologist Olga Belova to six years in prison in absentia on a charge of distributing "deliberately false" information about Russia's armed forces ...
France on Tuesday accused Iran of employing a policy of state hostage-taking and blackmail, as it called for the release of a French couple held in jail for the last two years.Activists have long ...
Arrested multiple times and tortured, the popular Iranian music artist was sentenced to death on April 24 for his participation in the protests after the 2022 death of young Mahsa Amini.
It's also regularly applied to certain drug traffickers. Iran is second only to China in the number of executions it carries ...
Former Kazakh Economy Minister Quandyq Bishimbaev who is on trial for violently killing his 31-year-old wife, Saltanat ...