central Pakistani town of Sahiwal, where a young man, Ayub Masih, had been convicted and sentenced to death trial, a judge found him guilty of having insulted Islam's prophet and sentenced him to the mandatory death In recent years, record numbers of cases are being filed under the law, which can carry a death sentence Currently, there are about 80 convicts on death row or serving life imprisonment terms in Pakistan for assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in 2011 turned a debate on the blasphemy law into a death

Pakistan says Indian forces have violated the ceasefire 1,877 times this year, resulting in 15 civilians Speaking in Muzaffarabad, Khan said the world community had earlier ignored the plight of Kashmiri civilians

A former cellmate of Shervin Bagherian, an 18-year-old sentenced to death in the Alikhani Square case magistrate, Hosseini was subjected to xenophobic insults and denied a hearing before being issued a death Morteza Barati, who preside over the branch, have a documented history of issuing heavy sentences and death

disputed these claims and used forceful measures  to enforce the election result, which led to the death Blackouts also occurred in response to the Women Life Freedom protests in 2022 , triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death

UNICEF says unofficial sources put the death toll from Saturday’s attack in Tchomo-Bangou and Zaroumadareye Some children were burned to death, UNICEF said. There has been no claim of responsibility.

nascent democracy governed under a junta-authored constitution which dictates power-sharing between the civilian

budget provided 33.8 million Canadian dollars ($28m) over three years to support the recommendations on deaths month urged Canada and the Catholic Church to conduct “prompt and thorough” investigations into the deaths “The judiciary should conduct criminal investigations into all suspicious death and allegations of torture

Amhara regions in recent months, the national ombudsman said Tuesday, a rare admission of hunger-related deaths Local officials have previously reported starvation deaths in their districts, but Ethiopia’s federal They concluded that 351 people have died of hunger in Tigray in the past six months, with 44 more deaths When Tigray’s leader, Getachew Reda, raised the alarm over looming mass starvation deaths last month,

Millions of civilians are either displaced in Ukraine or living as refugees in Russia. First, peacekeepers would need to establish control over the front line, protect civilians, provide security

The first is whether Haftar and the LNA are effectively declaring civilian institutions moot.

extremist Islamic State militia, displaced millions of people and left hundreds of thousands — mostly civilians The regime has also dropped "barrel bombs" from helicopters directly onto civilian homes. earth" strategy by which Assad's forces try to retake an area by forcing everyone to leave – rebels and civilians In 2012, reports emerged that Syria was preparing to use chemical weapons against combatants and civilians These areas are also home to millions of civilians, many of them internally displaced and living in camps

Yet, military might continues to be used against civilians in a way that defies all reason, let alone from the international community remain largely unchanged, noting that they include the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure by all parties to the conflict; immediate, unimpeded and sustained access In besieged eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, civilians remain trapped amid reports of relentless shelling Many of those who displace to Idlib or northern Aleppo continue to live in areas where civilian structures