A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence against a Canadian man, convicted of drug trafficking, triggering a strong rebuke from Ottawa.

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq sentences 9 to death over their involvement in the Daesh Camp Speicher massacre back in June 2014.

A UN human rights watchdog has urged Bahrain to release two activists facing death sentences.

Saudi authorities execute a youth from the kingdom’s Shia-​majority Qatif region over claims of stoking chaos and instigating protests against the regime in Riyadh among other baseless accusations.

Security forces have killed more than 80 people. The military disputes the total number of fatalities.

Saudi Arabia is one of the top executioners in the world, with more than 2,000 people executed between 1985 and 2016.

Iran’s Supreme Court upholds a death sentence issued against Rohollah Zam.

Protests rocked Bangladesh on Saturday as hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice after a series of rapes and sexual assaults.

Amnesty International urges the Bahraini monarch to commute death sentences handed down to a dozen men.

Dozens of French lawmakers call on Bahrain to cease the execution of two imprisoned men sentenced earlier this month to death.