Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early on Monday.

The opening ceremony of the art exhibition “Death Sentence” took place yesterday (February 15) at the Bengal Shilpalay. Curated by Jewel A Rob, under the Bengal Foundation’s Subir Choudhury Curatorial Practice Grant, works by five artists namely Anisuzzaman Sohel, Emran Sohel, Promotesh Das Pulak, Najmun Nahar Keya, and Shimul Datta, are currently being featured in the show.

Iran on Sunday issued its first death sentence over the protests that have shaken the country's clerical leadership, the judiciary said, with a rights group warning other convicts risked being "hastily" executed.

A Chattogram tribunal today sentenced five members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the bomb attack on a naval base in Chattogram.

A Kishoreganj court sentences two persons including a police constable to death and five others to four-year jail term in connection with killing of two college girls in 2008.

A Dhaka court sentences six persons to death for killing a housewife by setting her on fire over dowry in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka in 2005.

A youth has been awarded death penalty by Kishoreganj Women and Children Repression Prevention court today for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl.

A Natore court sentences two people to death for killing an eleven-year-old schoolgirl after rape in Naldanga upazila in the district in 2015.

A court in Gazipur today convicts four people, including two siblings, and sentences them to death for killing a schoolboy at Pubail in the city in August 2004.

Supreme Court commutes the death sentence of a member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to jail until death for the bomb attack on Sylhet judge in 2005.

In a revision trial, a special court today commuted the death sentence of two operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life term imprisonment for killing a teacher of Rajshahi University in 2004.

Convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday filed a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment until death.

The International Crimes Tribunal today received the full verdict copy of war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee that commuted his death sentence to jail until death.

A lawyer of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami appeals to the Supreme Court to commute his client’s death sentence to life term imprisonment if he is found guilty for committing crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

Eleven people are sentenced to death for killing Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur. Additional District and Sessions Judge pronounced the verdict.

The death row war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury do not give their decision over seeking presidential clemency.

Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is sentenced to death over 2011 prison break.

The Supreme Court starts hearing the appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed challenging his death sentence for his crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006