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The death penalty returns to Israel – podcast
By May 25, 2026

Senior Middle East correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison on a pair of laws recently passed by the Israeli parliament to bring back the death penalty – seemingly only for PalestiniansEarlier this month, Israel’s far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir…

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Executions Surge in Iran Since Cease-Fire, Rights Groups Say
BySanam Mahoozi and Erika Solomon May 15, 2026May 15, 2026

Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to intimidate Iranians from returning to the streets.

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Israeli MPs back special tribunal with death penalty powers for alleged 7 October attackers
ByPeter Beaumont and agencies May 12, 2026

Knesset approves plan for livestreamed trials in military court, drawing comparisons to 1962 Adolf Eichmann trialIsraeli lawmakers have approved setting up a livestreamed special tribunal with the power to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of ta…

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Iran’s wartime executions – podcast
By April 30, 2026

Over the last six weeks, the Iranian regime has carried out a spate of executions of political prisoners. The Guardian journalist Daniel Boffey reportsIran has hanged 18 political prisoners during the last six weeks.Chief reporter Dan Boffey tells the …

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Hanged under the cover of war: letters and videos tell stories of Iran’s death row victims
ByDaniel Boffey Chief reporter April 25, 2026

Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March Writing from his cell in the Rajai Shahr prison in the northern Iranian city of Karaj, Babak Alipour wanted to tell his friends about those …

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Israel’s death penalty law could spell suspension from rights body role, says chief
ByJennifer Rankin in Brussels April 22, 2026

Not using capital punishment ‘really a requirement’ for Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, says presidentIsrael’s observer status at the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly could be suspended over the country’s new law mandating the dea…

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‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?
BySarah Johnson and Maryam Foumani April 2, 2026

Regime has long used the death penalty to suppress dissent but now appears to be withholding information on the killing of hundreds of prisoners, say rights groupsIt has been almost three months since Peyvand Naimi, 30, was arrested in connection with …

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Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak
ByYuli Novak April 2, 2026

A government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal forceYuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights groupThis week, Israel passed a law that institutionalises the …

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‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
ByPeter Beaumont Senior international correspondent March 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, ‘must be promptly repealed’A new Israeli law which would sanction the execution of Palestinians convicted on terror charges for deadly attacks, …

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Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem March 30, 2026March 30, 2026

Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groupsIsrael’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by Europ…

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