Friday 14 March 2014  Saudi delays execution of seven men
Executions jump in 2011, driven by ME: Amnesty  The number of
executions carried out around the world jumped last year,
largely due to a surge in use of the death penalty in Iran, Iraq
and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.     
The rights gro   UN chief alarmed over Syria atrocities  UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received 'grisly
reports' that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily
executing, imprisoning and torturing people in the battle-
scarred city of Homs after rebel fighters had fled. Ban   Russia
appeals to Iraq to not execute Aziz  Russia called on Iraq on
Wednesday not to carry out the death sentence on Tareq Aziz on
humanitarian grounds, its foreign ministry said. The Vatican has
also appealed against the sentence which was passed by Iraq's
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