Supporters of the Crescent Gardens Cemetery, a dedicated Muslim burial site, say they need the graves. But some residents ...

Niki Nikbakht comes from a close-knit family. Her two elder brothers, Hadi and Fazlollah, are just two out of dozens of ...

President Trump issued a stark warning to Iran late Friday, after the Islamic Republic reportedly plotted an assassination attempt against him. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the U.S. has ...

Illegal Bangladeshi migrant Shahidul Islam was deported from the US but he re-entered and allegedly killed a Florida woman, his sister-in-law, over a property dispute in Bangladesh, and then fled to a ...

Around the world, a total of 47 countries still retain capital punishment – including Pakistan. Barrister Sarah Belal founded the Justice Project Pakistan in 2009 to represent the most vulnerable ...

RFI: You are a barrister and the executive director of Justice Project Pakistan. How do you reconcile your work on the abolition of the death penalty while operating in Pakistan, an Islamic state?

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty involving an illegal alien who re-entered the U.S. after being deported and allegedly killed a Florida woman before fleeing to a sanctuary city. Bangladeshi ...

The death of a 22-year-old medical student from Kerala in Uzbekistan has sparked outrage, with her family alleging that she was tortured, brutally assaulted and pressured to convert to Islam before ...

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals I remember interviewing a North Atlantic right whale expert ...

Crowds marched through Mashhad on Thursday morning waving Iranian flags, photographs and placards with revolutionary slogans.

According to a new Florida law, the death penalty is an option for those who've committed a capital crime and are in the U.S. illegally. Shahidul Islam is a suspect in the death of his sister-in-law, ...

Former Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at his residential compound in central Tehran, in a joint US and Israeli attack on February 28 this year, will be buried on July 9.