Amnesty International denounced Taiwan's execution of Huang Linkai on Thursday, calling the event a 'shameful setback' as it ...

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Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union ...

Tehran's First Criminal Court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy for 'insulting Prophet Muhammad,' ...

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E-Ling Chiu, Amnesty International Taiwan’s director ... years of hard-fought progress towards the abolition of the death penalty. “The execution of Huang Linkai was carried out in violation ...

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Taiwan has carried out its first execution in nearly five years, drawing criticism from rights groups who said the use of ...

Taiwan executed a man for a 2013 murder, marking the first execution in five years. This decision has sparked criticism from ...

The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in five years, has sparked condemnation from rights groups.