Tag: execution
South Sudan denies kidnapping, executions
South Sudan rejects UN allegations its security services kidnapped two prominent government critics exiled in Kenya, flew them to Juba and days later executed...
UN concerned about flawed trials and torture in Egypt
The UN human rights office voiced concern about trials that saw 15 people executed in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations...
Cameroon to probe alleged execution video
Cameroon's government will investigate a video Amnesty International said shows security forces shooting at least a dozen unarmed people in the far north...
Cameroon investigating apparent execution video
The Cameroonian government is investigating a video circulated online appearing to show men in military uniform shooting dead two women and two...
Executions, torture and slave markets persist in Libya – UN
Armed groups execute and torture civilians in Libya in almost complete impunity seven years after the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the...
Somali militants kill men accused of rape
Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned a man to death and shot another dead after both were accused of raping a...
Al Shabaab militants executed in Puntland
Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region executed five people it said were Islamist militants responsible for killing three senior government officials last year, a...
Purported Boko Haram video shows execution of alleged Nigerian spies
Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday released a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused of...
Prominent Islamist militant executed in Egypt
Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter  on Thursday, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance...
Indonesia to execute convicts from Nigeria and Zimbabwe this year
Indonesia plans to execute this year at least two foreign convicts, one from Nigeria and another from Zimbabwe, the attorney general said...
Libya urged to investigate Gaddafi supporters’ “execution”
A human rights group called for an investigation into a suspected mass execution of 53 Gaddafi supporters and urged Libyan authorities to...
Sudan hangs 6 men for killing 13 policemen
Sudan yesterday hanged six men convicted in the murder of 13 policemen five years ago during a forced eviction operation in the...
Somali militia executes Shabaab rebel commander
A pro-government militia in Somalia executed a commander from the al Shabaab rebel group in public last week, ramping up the stakes...
