An Iranian protester was sentenced to death today for setting fire to a government building, the first known use of capital punishment for participation in an anti-regime ‘riot’. The death sentence is the latest attempt by the Iranian government to suppress the protests which have swept the country since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September after she was... 

First democratically-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar and escaping from prison during the country’s revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The sentence was issued on Saturday in the capital of Cairo... 

The Upper Egypt court has issued a death penalty to 529 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of murder and inciting violence. Only 153 of those sentenced are currently in custody, the rest were tried in absentia. The sentence will have to be ratified by Egypt’s Grand Mufti before it can be carried out. “The court has decided to sentence to death 529 defendants and 16 were acquitted,”... 

Protesters demonstrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo after Hosni Mubarak avoided a death sentence in his trial and his sons and henchmen were cleared of corruption charges Egypt descended into chaos last night despite President Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence, after he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off huge protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the birthplace of... 

A frame grab obtained from a video aired on the Iranian television on December 18, 2011 shows Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the CIA operative recently detained in the Islamic Republic. Iran has sentenced to death CIA operative Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, who was earlier arrested by Iran’s intelligence forces on charges of committing acts of espionage on behalf of the US. The verdict was issued by Tehran’s... 

'Tanorexic': Mrs Cobb with, from left, Alfie, Jack, Harry and Archie She once used sunbeds up to five times a week because she thought her tan ‘made her look healthy’. But Joanne Cobb’s obsession with having a golden glow has left her facing a possible death sentence. She has found herself battling nodular melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, and has had to accept... 

Reporters take pictures of electronic instruments Lebanese security forces found with arrested Israeli spies. A Lebanese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death on charges of espionage and involvement in the killing of senior members of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups. A military tribunal convicted the former member of Lebanon’s security force Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh, 63, of “collaboration...