UNAMA has urged the Taliban to immediately stop executions in Afghanistan, calling for a suspension of capital punishment to uphold human rights.

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban’s return to power.

Although mandatory death penalty was abolished in 2023, many death sentences in Malaysia still involve drug offences.

The situation on the death penalty in Africa is not uniform. Most African countries have either legally or practically ...

Taliban carry out four public executions in Afghanistan in one day, the highest number since 2021. Amnesty condemns the ...

Two of the men were shot around six to seven times by a male relative of the victims in front of spectators in Qala-i-Naw, ...