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Illustrative: Women share an umbrella as they stand at Enghelab Square in Iran's capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
November 13, 2024, 10:24 am
Iran holds public execution of serial rapist convicted in dozens of cases
Mohammad Ali Salamat hanged in Hamedan after being accused of raping dozens of women over 20 years
By AP
An honor guard member is covered by the flag of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
March 13, 2022, 4:08 pm
Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia after mass execution — report
Halt comes after Riyadh put 81 people to death over various crimes, in largest known public killing in kingdom’s modern history, with over three dozen said to be Shiites
By Amir Vahdat
Illustrative: A hangman's noose (iStock)
September 20, 2017, 12:41 pm
Crowd cheers as Iran hangs man for rape, murder of young girl
Held in public ‘to restore citizens’ sense of security,’ execution also shown on state broadcaster’s website
By AFP
An illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)
April 11, 2017, 8:36 pm
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq among top 5 global executioners, says Amnesty
China tops list but excluding Beijing, three Mideast nations and Pakistan account for 87% of all executions in 2016
By ToI Staff and AP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an official ceremony in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Adem Altan)
January 6, 2016, 8:04 pm
Erdogan says Saudi executions ‘internal legal matter’
As regional tensions increase over controversial executions, Turkey’s president declines to condemn Riydah
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, a Saudi anti-government protester carries a poster with the image of jailed Shiite cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during the funeral of three Shiite Muslims allegedly killed by Saudi security forces in the eastern town of al-Awamiya, Saudi Arabia. (AP)
January 2, 2016, 3:19 pm
Fury in Iran and Iraq as Saudis execute top Shiite cleric
Tehran warns Riyadh will ‘pay high price’ for killing Nimr al-Nimr, accused of role in al-Qaeda attacks; 46 others also put to death
By AFP
Fighters from Islamic State seen marching in their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, June 2014. (AP/Militant Website, File)
September 22, 2015, 1:31 am
IS executes 10 people accused of being gay in Syria
In latest jihadist killings, 9 men and one boy are shot in public for their alleged crimes
By AFP
Illustrative: A Saudi executioner displays his sword. (YouTube/MEMRITVVideos)
August 27, 2015, 7:24 pm
Saudi Arabia executes Pakistani for drug trafficking
Latest execution brings number of death sentences this year to 128, compared with 87 for all of 2014
By AFP
Image from an Islamic State video showing the mass execution of Syrian soldiers on the stage of the amphitheater in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria shortly after the group captured the city on May 21, 2015. (screen grab: YouTube)
July 4, 2015, 9:02 pm
IS video shows mass execution in Syria’s ancient Palmyra
Jihadist group releases footage of teenagers shooting government soldiers at the city’s Roman amphitheater
By AFP
Islamic State fighters in a video produced by the group (YouTube screen capture/VICE News)
June 30, 2015, 12:34 pm
In reported first, IS beheads two women in Syria
Group decapitates wives along with their husbands for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’
By AFP
Islamic State jihadists lower five men into a pool to drown, in a video released June 23, 2015. (Screen capture)
June 23, 2015, 5:40 pm
IS drowns, decapitates ‘spies’ in brutal new video
Jihadists film themselves killing several men accused of espionage in grotesque, sickening ways
By AFP
Islamic State militants kill a man they accused of being a homosexual by throwing him off a building in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh, in this verified photo released by a militant website on Jan. 14, 2015. (Militant website via AP)
June 18, 2015, 11:04 am
Inside the Islamic State: Creating a nation of fear
Survivors detail day-to-day life under the caliphate — including frequent beatings, torture and executions
By Lee Keath, Bram Janssen, Vivian Salama and Zeina Karam
Members of the Palestinian National Security service, loyal to Hamas, patrol the southern Gaza strip border on February 10, 2015. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 11, 2015, 6:16 pm
Hamas gives Gazan 15 years for spying for Israel
Two other men were handed same sentence for same offense in March
By AFP
A man accused of homosexuality is led to the edge of a tall building by Islamic State fighters before being hurled down to his death in January (screenshot)
April 10, 2015, 1:31 am
IS releases ‘crime and punishment’ list
Violating the group’s radical code of conduct can result in public crucifixion, stoning, lashes and amputations
By Tamar Pileggi
The Quran (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 25, 2015, 10:05 am
Saudi Arabia to behead man for renouncing Islam
Defendant to be executed after he posted a video of himself ripping up a Quran, hitting it with his shoe
By Tamar Pileggi
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