Authorities target accused foreign agents, citing national security, as executions and confiscation of assets intensify.

Only a handful of prisoners are executed each year; the number of in-custody suicides and homicides the state allows to ...

A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel ...

On Monday, Iranian state media said that the U.S. had fired on small cargo boats carrying goods and passengers, killing five ...

For 12 years, Sally Lane and John Letts have been fighting to bring their son Jack – held in Isis prisons in Syria and Iraq – ...

Iran announced the hanging of three more men on May 4 as a wave of executions continued amid the backdrop of Tehran's war ...

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at an upstate New York ...

Mehdi Rassouli, Mohammad Reza Miri and Ebrahim Dolatabadi were executed after being convicted over unrest in the eastern city ...

Hangings are latest in wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear amid war with US and Israel ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad ...

Iran is being accused of intensifying its crackdown on dissent with executions, mass arrests and one of the internet longest shutdowns to stifle protests against the regime.

Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist, was taken to a hospital after collapsing following a heart problem in ...