May 19
IRAQ:
In Iraq, the Russians subjected to the death penalty because of the involvement
of the IG*
The Russian was found guilty of participation in criminal activities of the
terrorist group "Islamic state."* This information was unveiled today, may 18,
the Iraqi information portal "al-Ayin".
The criminal court considered the case of the Russians, accused of
participation in combat operations on the side of the terrorists, finding him
guilty. During sentencing, it became known that the man sentenced to the death
penalty. At the moment we know only the name of the convict - Khasanov, while
the rest of the details of the case continue to hold secret from the press.
Earlier journalists published secret information, according to which the
beginning of 2018, the courts of Baghdad sentenced to death or life sentences
of approximately 300 foreigners involved in terrorist activities.
* - The organization was prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation
decision of the Supreme court
(source: The Silver telegram)
IRAN----execution
A Man Hanged at Ardabil Prison
A prisoner was hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges.
According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, May 16, a prisoner
was hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges. The prisoner, named
Babak Rezaei, was sentenced to death and 10 years in prison on the charge of
murder during an armed robbery. The robbery took place in October 2012.
According to a report by Tasnim news agency quoting the Public and
Revolutionary Prosecutor of Ardabil, Naser Atabati, "The defendant was 41 years
old and he committed armed robbery and murder with his accomplice."
It should be noted that during the last week, statistical department of Iran
Human Rights (IHR) reported 11 executions in Iran.
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the
517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There
is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in
issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and
intent.
(source: Iran Human Rights)
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Death row political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi at the verge of execution
The case of death row political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, has been sent to
the office in charge of implementing executions, his lawyer Hossein Ahmadi Niaz
said.
"On Thursday, May 17, when I went to the Sanandaj Court to investigate the
lates status of my client I found that his case has been sent to the
implementation of verdict unit," while expressing concern over the imminent
execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi, Ahmadi Niaz announced.
He believes that the case has reached the implementation process much faster
than other death row prisoners.
The political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi had been previously taken to a
quarantine ward for his scheduled execution on May 2, 2018, but he was moved
out of solitary confinement following international outcry by the UN and human
rights groups over his scheduled execution.
Amnesty International released a statement on May 1, 2018, calling the Iranian
authorities to quashed the death sentence and said, "Ramin Hossein Panahi's
case has been a breathtaking miscarriage of justice from start to finish. After
appearing at his trial reportedly bearing torture marks on his body he was
convicted in less than an hour."
Ramin Hossein Panahi was sentenced to death in January 2018 for "taking up arms
against the state" (baqi). His conviction was based upon his membership of the
armed Kurdish opposition group Komala, but no evidence linking him to
activities involving intentional killing - the required threshold under
international law for imposing the death penalty - was presented at his trial.
(source: iran-hrm.com)
TUNISIA:
Tunisian government to review anti-terrorism law, says minister
Tunisia's Justice Minister said on Thursday that the government intends to
review the anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering laws in line with domestic
and international legislation.
"The review comes due to the emergence of many difficulties in applying the
current anti-terrorism law," Ghazi Jeribi told the parliamentary General
Legislation Committee. He explained that the review will focus mainly on the
establishment of legal and institutional frameworks and procedures required to
establish a mechanism to implement UN Security Council resolutions on
preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
"The law which established the Tunisian Counter-Terrorism Committee, the CTC,
and gave it the authority to follow up on the implementation of UN resolutions
related to the financing of terrorism," Jeribi pointed out, "did not explicitly
refer to UN resolutions related to the prevention of weapons of mass
destruction and this is what will be amended."
According to the minister, several chapters of the anti-terrorism law have been
reviewed to be in line with Tunisian legislation issued after 2015 related to
financial institutions, the central bank and the judicial and economic fields.
In July 2015, the Tunisian Parliament passed a law to combat terrorism and
money laundering with a severe sentencing structure, including the death
penalty.
(source: Middle East Monitor)
SUDAN:
Sudan teen's death penalty puts spotlight on women's rights
When a Sudanese teenager was sentenced to death last week for killing her
husband, who had allegedly raped her, activists knew that a new fight had begun
for women's rights in Sudan.
Noura Hussein, 19, received the sentence for the "intentional murder" of the
man her father had forced her to marry.
"Noura is facing death. Her case has brought us close to an execution," said
Sudanese women's rights activist Wini Omer, who witnessed the sentencing on May
10.
"The situation is dangerous and necessitates taking women's rights more
seriously so that we can protect them," she said.
Hussein's case has triggered outrage, with activists launching a campaign
called "Justice For Noura" and the United Nations' women's agency appealing for
clemency.
The teenager's plight has also focused attention on issues facing women in
Sudan such as marital rape, child marriage, forced marriage and the arbitrary
application of Islamic law, along with tribal traditions that often target
women.
Rights group Amnesty International says Hussein was forcibly married at the age
of 16, and that when she refused to consummate the marriage, her husband
invited 2 of his brothers and a male cousin to help him rape her.
When he tried to rape her a 2nd time, she stabbed him to death, said Amnesty.
Sudanese law allows children above 10 to be married.
"In our arguments we raised the issue that it was a forced marriage and that
she was raped," Hussein???s lawyer, Adil Mohamed al-Emam, told AFP.
"The court discussed it but did not recognise that she was raped."
Emam says he will appeal against the sentence.
'Regime ideology'
Days after Hussein was sentenced, another Sudanese woman was lashed 75 times at
a police station in the Sudanese capital after a court found her guilty of
marrying without her father's approval.
Omer has also faced the wrath of Sudan's controversial public order law, which
she says primarily targets women.
In one case a prosecutor accused her of "indecent dressing," although she had
worn a skirt, top and headscarf whilst waiting for a bus on a Khartoum street.
A court found her not guilty.
In a 2nd case, Omer said she was accused of prostitution after police stormed
an apartment where she was with friends. She was detained for 5 days.
"Women in Sudan have been systematically oppressed since 1989," Omer told AFP,
referring to the year when President Omar al-Bashir seized power in an
Islamist-backed coup.
"It is the regime's ideology that discriminates between men and women," she
said, dressed in a black top and leggings.
Activists want Sudanese laws to be amended, particularly the security act,
which gives security agents sweeping powers to make arbitrary detentions.
"It's not about the judge, the problem is with our laws themselves," said
leading human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam.
"Imagine you can be detained up to 9 months without charges under the security
act," he said.
He was detained for several months amid a crackdown on opposition activists in
2016.
'Bad Laws'
Even before Hussein's sentence, rights activists had been urging Washington,
which in October lifted decades-old sanctions against Khartoum, to push the
Sudanese authorities to allow women more freedoms.
"We are trying to cooperate with the government to assure them that allowing
more freedoms enhances the society," Steven Koutsis, top US envoy to Khartoum,
told AFP at an event in March to honour courageous Sudanese women.
He said there was a will within the government to improve the human rights
situation in Sudan.
"But that is tempered by fears (about) how to react to threats of instability,"
he said, adding that for Washington, human rights included women's rights.
Sudanese officials claim that many issues facing women are to do with the
African country's centuries-old traditions, often tribal in nature.
"Had Noura gone to a court right at the beginning when she was being forced to
marry, she would have been protected," insisted Abdulnasser Solom, an official
from the government's Human Rights Commission.
But activists say Hussein's case is just the tip of a vast iceberg.
"There are tens and thousands of cases like Noura in our community that no one
knows about," said leading women's activist Amal Habbani, who was detained for
weeks for participating in opposition protests in January.
Sudanese laws do not consider women as human beings who can take their own
decisions, she said.
"Bad laws create a bad environment in which women get oppressed," Habbani said.
(source: geo.tv)
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