executions

A briefing by Amnesty International published yesterday documents atrocities commmitted by Boko Haram and the Nigerian security forces.

Torture, flogging and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, an armed group controlling swathes of northern Syria.

Amnesty Inrernational has called on the new Pakistani government to impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards abolition.