July 5
IRANexecutions
2 Men Executed at Rajai-Shahr Prison
At least 2 prisoners were hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison.
According to IHR sources, on the early morning of Wednesday, July 3, at least 2
prisoners were hanged at the Iranian city of Karaj’s Rajai-Shahr prison. IHR
sources
July 4
INDIA:
Why Bombay High Court order on death penalty for repeat rape offenders is
unsatisfactoryThe death penalty presents a unique kind of threat to
individual rights – and for this reason, the court should have engaged in
stricter scrutiny than it did
The Bombay High
July 3
PAKISTAN:
Man sentenced to death for murdering schoolgirl
The Model Criminal Court, Haripur, has awarded death penalty to a man who had
gunned down a schoolgirl four years back in the Hattar village. According to
prosecution record, Azra Bibi, 14, daughter of, Amjad Iqbal of
July 2
PHILIPPINES:
Bong Go files bill imposing the death penalty for drugs, plunder
Neophyte Senator Christopher "Bong" Go on Tuesday filed a bill seeking the
reimposition of the death penalty for heinous crimes involving dangerous drugs,
as well as for plunder.
Senate Bill 207
July 1
VIETNAM:
Singaporean nabbed at Vietnam-Cambodia border may get death for allegedly
transporting 10kg of Ice
A 39-year-old Singaporean man was arrested last Saturday (June 29) at the
border of Vietnam and Cambodia for allegedly transporting 10kg of crystal meth,
also known as
June 29
GLOBAL:
UN General Assembly adopts controversial resolution on torture-free trade
The General Assembly on Friday adopted a controversial resolution, which aims
to establish common international standards for torture-free trade.
The draft resolution, introduced by Romania,
June 28
SRI LANKA:
Death Penalty: License for Judicial Killings
Last year, on October 2, Iran executed a 24-year-old woman, Zeinab Sekaanvand,
who was a child at the time of her alleged offense. Under international law,
she should have been excluded from the death penalty. She was
June 27
SAUDI ARABIA:
Online petition calls for release of Saudi Salman Al-Ouda
The son of imprisoned Saudi sheikh, Salman Al-Ouda, has launched an online
petition demanding for his father’s release. Abdullah Alodah, who lives in the
United States, launched the petition calling for
June 26
SRI LANKA:
Sri Lanka reinstates death penalty for drug crimes ahead of polls
Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday signed death sentences for 4 people
convicted of drug-related offences in a decision analysts said is aimed at
boosting his chances of re-election later this year.
June 25
GLOBAL:
How to Understand the Death Penalty and Development of Doctrine
Recent developments in Rome on the subject of capital punishment have led to
many anguished discussions on whether a change authorized by Pope Francis in
the moral stance of the Church on the death
June 24
UGANDA:
Ssebuufu Found Guilty of Murder
The proprietor of Pine Car Bond, Muhammad Ssebuufu has been found guilty of
murdering Betty Donnah Katushabe, a business woman, over a Shs9 million debt.
Katushabe was tortured to death on October 23, 2015 over a car debt she could
June 23
SAUDI ARABIA:
Religious Thinker on Trial for His LifeCriticized ‘Extremism’ in School
Curriculum
Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a Saudi religious
reformist thinker on a host of vague charges relating to his peaceful religious
ideas, Human
June 22
INDIA:
Bombay HC stays execution of 2 death row convictsBoth were convicted for
kidnap, rape, and murder of a BPO worker in Pune in 2007
The Bombay High Court on Friday stayed the execution of 2 men scheduled to hang
in 3 days for the rape and murder of a BPO employee
June 21
PAKISTAN:
Pakistan to revoke capital punshiment for accused, says foreign minister
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says Pakistan is going to revoke capital
punishment for the accused, who will be extradited from other countries.
"We are amending the Pakistan Penal
June 20
BELARUS:
Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the execution of Alyaksandr
Zhylnikau in Belarus
The Committee of Ministers deeply deplores the execution of Mr Alyaksandr
Zhylnikau, announced on 13 June 2019.
It calls on the Belarussian authorities not to carry out
June 19
IRANexecution
Man Executed at Ahvaz Prison
A prisoner was hanged for murder charges at Ahvaz (Ahwaz) Central Prison last
Saturday.
According to IHR sources, on Saturday, June 15, prisoner Mohammad Shekaf was
hanged at the Iranian southern city of Ahvaz’s central
June 18
BELARUS:
PACE 'Strongly Condemns' Secret Execution In Belarus
The Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has "strongly
condemned" the reported secret execution of a Belarusian while his case was
still under consideration by the United Nations Human Rights
June 17
SAUDI ARABIA:
Saudi Arabia May Execute Teenager for His Protests — Including When He Was 10
In 2011, as Arab Spring protests swept across the Middle East, demonstrations
also kicked off in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province. Members of the
kingdom’s repressed Shiite
June 16
SAUDI ARABIA:
Saudi teenager arrested at 13 spared from execution, source says
Murtaja Qureiris, the 18-year-old who had been facing the death penalty in
Saudi Arabia, has been spared execution and sentenced to 12 years in prison,
according to a source familiar with the
June 15
KUWAIT:
Police officer accused of raping Filipina maid may face death penalty — envoy
Kuwait's envoy to Manila on Friday assured Philippine officials that his
government is exerting all efforts to arrest the police officer who allegedly
raped a Filipino maid, noting he could
June 14
BAHAMAS:
BCC president: Lethal injection is more humane than hanging
On the heels of the country’s latest homicide, President of the Bahamas
Christian Council, Bishop Delton Fernander, on Thursday expressed his stance on
capital punishment, calling for the eradication of
June 13
INDIA:
Death penalty for rapists of girls below 12 as President signs the ordinance
President Ram Nath Kovind signed an important ordinance on Thursday which will
pave the way to provide tougher punishments in rape cases. This ordinance also
includes a provision to give
June 12
IRAN:
Iran's top diplomat says his country executes gay people because of 'moral
principles'
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Monday cited "moral principles" when
asked why Iran executes homosexuals for their sexual orientation, as he also
attacked the US and
June 11
BANGLADESH:
‘Enemies of the nation’: Bangladesh considers death penalty, life imprisonment
for food adulterators
Bangladesh is considering implementation of the death penalty or life
imprisonment as a punishment for food adulterators in the country.
In a press conference,
June 10
SAUDI ARABIA:
Saudi teen faces beheading and crucifixion for protesting as a childA boy
arrested when he was just 13 faces the death penalty and sick acts on his body
for involvement in protests when he was just 10.
A teenager who has been held in a Saudi prison for
June 3
NOTEmy regular postings to this list will resume June 10
IRAQ:
Prosecuting Islamic State Foreign Fighters: Issues And Implications
The collapse of the physical caliphate of ISIS (Daesh) in Iraq and Syria has
not led to the demise of Salafi-jihadi terrorism, but given
June 2
GLOBAL:
The Bible and the Death Penalty
I have always been disturbed by the number of times the Bible declares “He, She
or It, shall be put to death.” It doesn’t matter the severity of the crime.
Being brought up in a liberal western society and having discovered how many
June 1
NIGERIA:
Amnesty International Seeks Abolition Of Death Penalty In Nigeria
Global rights group, Amnesty International has launched an 8 point human rights
agenda, asking the Federal and State Governments to urgently implement
recommendations from previous reports about human
May 31
SOUTH AFRICA:
Naledi Lethoba: Calls for death penalty intensify after brutal murderThe
gruesome details of Naledi Lethoba's final moments have caused uproar across
South Africa, as citizens and politicians demand the death penalty in SA.
The shocking murder of Naledi
May 30
KENYA:
FORGET HUMAN RIGHTSExecute culprits to win graft war, politician urges
Uhuru; Says Big Four agenda will never be realised given the level of
corruption in Kenya
A former MP aspirant in Embu yesterday urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to
disregard human rights
May 29
IRAQ:
Iraq condemns 7th Frenchman to death for IS membership
Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group in 2017, and has since taken
custody of thousands of jihadists captured in neighbouring Syria / © AFP
A Baghdad court sentenced a Frenchman to death on Wednesday
May 28
KENYA:
Former prison officer handed the death penalty for killing girlfriend
An ex-prison officer was sentenced to face the death penalty for the murder of
his girlfriend at Zimmerman estate in Nairobi 14 years ago.
The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Patrick Daniel
May 27
JORDAN:
Death sentence for 2 connected to Karak terror cell upheld
The Court of Cassation upheld a February State Security Court (SSC) ruling,
sentencing 2 men to death in connection with the Karak terror cell case that
resulted in the death of 10 people in Karak Governorate
May 26
CHINA:
Drug dealers sentenced to death in Shanxi
5 people were sentenced to death for drug dealing, according to a court in
north China's Shanxi Province.
Of the 23 people involved in the case, 3 received death sentences with a
reprieve, and 1 received a life sentence. The
May 25
INDIA:
see:
http://www.uniindia.com/main-accused-of-triple-murder-case-gets-capital-punishment-3-others-get-lifer/east/news/1609799.html
SAUDI ARABIA:
‘Death penalties are the norm in Saudi Arabia’
An online platform devoted to news from the region, has reported on
May 24
SAUDI ARABIAmass executions
Saudi Arabia Announces Mass Execution Of 37 Men
The Saudi Arabia government recently announced the mass execution of 37 men on
23 April. According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW), 33 of the men were Shia
Muslims, the maligned minority Muslim
May 23
BANGLADESH:
4 get death penalty for Kamrangirchar murder
Speedy Trial tribunal-1 today awarded death penalty to 4 people for killing one
Monir Hossain and cutting the dead body into 7 pieces in 2013.
The convicts are -- Md Anwer Hossain Mollah , Md Sharif Matbor, Monir's
May 23
IRAQ:
Iraq Brings the Islamic State to JusticeThe country’s trials have been
brutally efficient, but will the U.N. deem them fair?
In the coming weeks, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces may hand over up
to 28,000 people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State
May 22
SINGAPORE:
NGO wants Putrajaya to stop Malaysian’s execution in Singapore
Amnesty International Malaysia urged Putrajaya to intervene in a Malaysian’s
scheduled execution for drug possession in Singapore this Friday.
The human rights group pointed out that during Pannir
May 21
SOMALIA:
Somali Military Court Sentences Al-Shabaab Members to Death
Somali court of appeal for the armed forces has upheld the death penalty handed
to 2 al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu.
The first degree of the army court had previously sentenced Anshur Osman Abukar
and
May 20
PHILIPPINES:
CHR remains steadfast in opposing death penalty revival
Amid the plan of lawmakers to back the restoration of the death penalty in the
18th Congress, the Commission on Human Rights on Sunday maintained its
opposition against the proposal.
“The Commission is
May 19
SAUDI ARABIAfemale execution
Saudi Arabia executes Philippine woman convicted of murder
A 39-year-old Filipina was executed this week in Saudi Arabia after being
convicted of murder under Islamic Shariah law, the Philippines’ Department of
Foreign Affairs said on
May 18
NIGERIA:
Yul Edochie Proposes Death Penalty For Rapists
Nigerian actor and politician, Yul Edochie has mooted the idea of death penalty
for rapists, stating that commercial sex workers are also humans.
The actor, who is known for harbouring strong opinion on sundry issues,
May 16
PHILIPPINES:
Sotto: Death penalty bill may be marked priority, but passage is uncertain
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said Thursday that the proposal to
reinstatement death penalty on high level drug trafficking crime may be marked
as priority in the coming 18th
May 15
BAHRAIN:
Suspend Death PenaltyCourt Upholds Death Sentence for 2 Men
The Bahrain Court of Cassation, the country’s court of last resort, upheld the
death sentence against two men on May 6, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. A
court convicted the men, Ali al-Arab and
May 14
PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
AG to announce how death penalty will be executed
The death penalty will be applicable to murder, piracy, treason, rape and other
major criminal cases, depending on their severity, says Minister for Justice
and Attorney-General Alfred Manase.
He told The
May 13
VIETNAM:
Vietnamese arrested for transporting drugs from Cambodia
Police and border guards of Vietnam’s southern Long An province on Sunday
arrested a local man for transporting 57 kg of crystal meth and nearly 7 kg of
heroin from Cambodia to Vietnam, local online newspaper
May 12
PAKISTAN:
Aasia Bibi’s lawyer will now plead the case of a Christian couple on death-row
Saiful Malook, the lawyer who pleaded the case of Aasia Bibi is all set to
fight the case of a Christian couple who are now on death row for committing
blasphemy.
The couple was
May 11
INDIA:
Alwar rapists should be hanged: MayawatiA woman was allegedly gang-raped by
5 men while her husband was beaten up in Thanagaji area of Alwar district in
Rajasthan on April 26.
Coming down heavily on Congress-led Rajasthan state government, BSP chief
Mayawati
May 10
PHILIPPINES:
Philippine polls could open door to death penalty return
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to strengthen his grip on
power in midterm polls next week, experts say, clearing a possible path to
restoring the death penalty and advancing his pledge to
May 8
PAKISTAN:
Aasia Bibi: Christian acquitted of blasphemy leaves PakistanHeld in
protective custody since her acquittal after 8 years on death row, Bibi leaves
citing threats to her life.
Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy by Pakistan's Supreme
Court last
May 7
GAMBIA:
Gambia’s president hinted on serious human rights violations
Amnesty International delegates in a meeting with President Adama Barrow in the
capital Banjul noted the major progress made in the two years since his
inauguration but drew attention to serious human rights
May 6
CANADA:
‘Crime of passion’: How a gay man became the last person to be executed in B.C.
On, Sept. 6, 1958, Aaron “Bud” Jenkins was stabbed to death as he slept in the
barracks at Esquimalt’s naval base.
Leo Mantha confessed to the crime. The tugboat operator had been
May 5
VIETNAM:
Vietnam arests 3 drug traffickers
Police of Vietnam's northern Son La province have detained 3 local people who
traded and possessed nearly 1.5 kg of heroin and over 3,000 pills of lab-made
drug.
The detainees include a 19-year-old woman, and two men aged 26 and
May 4
NIGERIA:
20 Condemned Convicts Escape Death as Ambode Commutes Sentences • Frees 14 who
had spent 20 years in prison
No fewer than 20 condemned prisoners in Lagos were saved from the hangman when
the state government commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment just
as
May 3
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO:
Bring back death penalty
It is sad and unfortunate to read about the 3 Quintero family members from
Palmiste who were found all shot dead in their vehicle along the Solomon Hochoy
Highway.
I don’t believe the police are capable of being everywhere at any
May 2
SAUDI ARABIA:
The Execution of Mujtaba al-SweikatA Saudi student who gained admission to
Western Michigan University was beheaded last week for charges associated with
his participation in a pro-democracy protest.
He was 17 years old, at the airport to catch a flight to
May 1
SOMALIA:
A court in S0malia slaps 3 with death penalty for murder over love match
A regional court in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Tuesday, April 30 has
sentenced 3 people, including a woman, to death for "burning man alive" last
year, Garowe Online reports.
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April 30
TRINIDAD:
The death penalty in the region
The year 2018 was a year of many firsts when it came to the death penalty in
the Caribbean.
For the first time since Amnesty International began its monitoring in 1979, no
new death sentences were known to have been imposed by
April 29
HONG KONG:
Suspect in Taiwan Valentine's murder jailed in Hong Kong
A Hong Kong man wanted in Taiwan for strangling his pregnant girlfriend in a
case used by the city to justify controversial changes to its extradition laws
was jailed Monday, but not for murder.
Chan
April 28
CHINA:
Of life and death: Xiao Yang, former head of China’s Supreme People’s Court,
dies at 80
Legal scholars and lawyers have been mourning the death of Xiao Yang, the
former president of China’s Supreme People’s Court who is best remembered for
his reforms on capital
April 27
MIDDLE EAST:
Al-Qaeda vow to avenge beheadings carried out by Saudi Arabia earlier this week
- claiming the men were executed 'to appease America'
Al Qaeda's Yemen branch is vowing to avenge victims of a mass execution carried
out by Saudia Arabia this week.
The group's
April 26
UNITED KINGDOM:
A third of Tory MPs want to bring back the death penalty
1/3 of Tory MPs support the reintroduction of capital punishment in the UK,
Yahoo News can reveal.
An exclusive poll of MPs carried out by YouGov found that 18% of Conservative
MPs strongly support
April 26
SAUDI ARABIA:
Will the Saudi Crown Prince's legacy only be executions and imprisonment?
The execution of 37 prisoners in Saudi Arabia is a scathing indictment of Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman's 'liberalising reforms'.
Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia put 37 of its
April 25
PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
Death penalty debate finds new life
The debate on the implementation of the death penalty is timely and should be
encouraged, outgoing Minister for Justice and Attorney-General Davis Steven
says.
“The question is whether it’s available, whether it can be
April 24
SINGAPORE:
Indonesian faces death penalty
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid
became so homesick and filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong, that she
hatched a “ruthless plan” to kill her employer.
Daryati, 26, wanted to get
April 23
BANGLADESH:
Nusrat murder: Relatives of accused seek capital punishment for
murderMadrasa student and Alim examinee Nusrat lost her battle for life, 5
days after she was set afire on April 6, an incident that touched off outrage
all over the country
Relatives of the
April 23
INDONESIA:
'Homesick' Indonesian maid faces death penalty for murdering employer
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid
became so homesick and filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong, that she
hatched a "ruthless plan" to kill her
April 22
IRAQnew death sentences
Iraqi court sentences 4 Daesh terrorists to death
An Iraqi court has sentenced 4 members of Daesh organization to death by
hanging over their participation in terrorist attacks in Iraq and Syria.
The Karkh Criminal Court in Baghdad handed Daesh
April 20
SRI LANKA:
Sri Lanka interviews dozens of aspiring hangmen after restoring death
penaltyFormer recruits have failed to show up to work or quit after one
look at the gallows, but Sri Lanka's President is determined to find two
hangmen to send thousands of prisoners to
April 19
GLOBAL:
The death penalty? Kill it off, around the world
Newspaper columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing is the latest high-profile
example of a sovereign meting out extreme justice and capital punishment. CIA
analysts concluded that Khashoggi was brutally killed last October
April 18
AFGHANISTAN:
2 sentenced to death for 2018 killing of Afghan journalist Abdul Manan Arghand
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Afghan government to
deliver justice through a fair and transparent process after 2 suspects were
sentenced to death for the
April 17
INDONESIA:
UK surfer faces death penalty in Bali for medicinal cannabis possession
A British man has revealed the sheer terror of facing time inside one of the
world‘s most notorious prisons and the death penalty after his arrest in Bali
last week.
Pip Holmes, a 45-year-old
April 17
PAKISTAN:
Murderer Get Death Penalty In Islamabad
An Additional District and Sessions court Tuesday awarded death sentence to an
accused involved in a murder case of Koral police limits.
The Koral police produced the Challan of an accused Zaheer Ahmed s/o Muhammad
Bakhsh
April 16
TAIWAN:
Drunk Drivers Who Kill People To Be Punished With Death Penalty In This Country
Some countries believe that the death penalty is the right way to go for
certain reprehensible crimes. Whether they are the sexual assault of a child or
murder, every country has its own
April 15
GLOBAL:
China remains the world’s top executioner-Amnesty International
Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at
least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the
death penalty published today.
The statistics
April 14
IRAN/IRAQ:
Iran, Iraq still among world’s top 5 executioners: Amnesty
Iran and Iraq remain among the world’s top 5 executioners despite an overall
drop in the number of death sentences, according to a new report by human
rights monitor Amnesty International.
Although
April 13
BANGLADESH:
5 teachers arrested over death of Chattogram madrasa boy
The father of Md Habibur Rahman, an 11-year-old boy whose body was recovered
from a mosque inside a madrasa in Chattogram, has initiated a murder case.
Police showed 5 people, including the madrasa's
April 12
GLOBAL:
People Do Not “Deserve to Die”: Injustice of Death Penalty Persists
While figures have dropped, the “inhuman” use of the death penalty still
remains too common worldwide, a human rights group said.
In a new report, Amnesty International found that global executions
April 11
PHILIPPINES:
Admin candidates seek to reimpose the death penalty to curb drug smuggling
With the recent seizure of nearly P800 million worth high grade cocaine off the
coast of Siargao and Dinagat Islands, Hugpong ng Pagbabago candidates are
convinced that the bill
April 10
MIDDLE EAST:
Iran and Iraq lead way in reducing executions in the Middle EastExecutions
fell by 41 percent from 2017 to 2018, but Amnesty International says practice
still taking place
The Middle East saw far fewer executions in 2018 than it did the previous year,
April 10
GLOBAL:
Death penalty in 2018: Facts and figures
Amnesty International recorded at least 690 executions in 20 countries in 2018,
a decrease of 31% compared to 2017 (at least 993). This figure represents the
lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded
April 8
SOUTH AFRICA:
CapeTalk callers debate the return of the death penalty
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNOCD), South
Africa had the 5th highest murder rate in the world in 2015.
The rate of crime in the country sparked a discussion between
April 7
INDIA:
BJP promises 'New Odisha', capital punishment to sexual offenders in its
manifestoReleasing the New Odisha Sankalpa Patra, BJP national president
Amit Shah said Odisha is one of the worst performing states in the country due
to all-round failures of BJD government.
April 6
ABKHAZIA:
Breakaway Abkhazia to reintroduce the death penalty for drug crime from 2020
Breakaway authorities in Abkhazia plan to lift its moratorium on capital
punishment in 2020 as tougher sentences are brought in against drug crime.
The de facto parliament of breakaway
April 5
SRI LANKA:
Sri Lanka seeks international assistance in training new hangmen
The Sri Lankan government will seek international assistance in training new
executioners, reports AFP, as the government gears towards re-implementing the
death penalty.
A reported 47 applicants
April 4
PAKISTAN:
Killer gets death in Faisalabad
The court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to an accused involved in a
murder case of Samanabad police station.
According to the prosecution, accused Naseemullah along with his brother Asghar
and sister Sughran Bibi had killed
April 3
BRUNEI:
Brunei will implement the Sharia laws from Wednesday, punishing sodomy,
adultery and rape with the death penalty
The United States on Tuesday criticized Brunei's decision to implement Islamic
laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and
April 3
VATICAN CITY:
Sanctuary of truth or brothel of error? More papal controversy on the death
penalty
Pope Francis aroused more controversy this week, making even more explicit his
apparent belief that the death penalty is always and everywhere wrong, while
frankly
April 2
BRUNEI:
Brunei sultan seeks conservative support with hardline sharia laws
Brunei's imposition of harsh sharia laws, including death by stoning for gay
sex and adultery, is a bid by the country's ruler to boost support among
conservatives and highlights a steady drift away
April 1
PAKISTAN:
Pakistan scraps trials before military courts after 4 years
Pakistan scrapped terrorism trials before special military courts after the
tribunals’ mandate expired on Monday, ending a measure that had been in place
for over four years to help authorities curb militant
March 31
PHILIPPINES:
VACC: Road-rage crimes call for revival of death penalty
The founding chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) on
Saturday again pushed for the reimposition of the death penalty in the
Philippines over the recent spate of road-rage crimes
March 30
BRUNEI:
OutrageMike Pompeo and Trump Administration ‘Concerned’ About Brunei’s Law
to Stone LGBT People to Death
On April 3, Brunei will legalize the stoning to death of LGBT people. A new law
in the southeast Asian country imposes death by stoning or whipping for
March 29
BRUNEI:
George Clooney calls for hotel boycott over Brunei LGBT death penalty
Film star George Clooney has called for a boycott of nine hotels because of
their links to Brunei, where homosexual acts will from next week be punishable
by death.
In an opinion piece written for
March 28
PAKISTAN:
Pashto Singer Brother Gets Death Penalty For Raping His Minor Nieces
A local court on Wednesday awarded death penalty and a fine of 0.6 million
rupees to a rapist uncle of Pashto singer Nazia Iqbal’s daughters.
Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge
March 28
NIGERIA:
Ex-Deputy Gov’s daughter: Ondo will execute convicted murderers, says
Attorney-General
The Ondo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adekola
Olawoye, has said the state has no plan to abolish death sentence.
There have been calls from some
March 25
KENYA:
HE ARGUED HIS OWN CASESentenced to hang in 1998, ex-convict becomes a
lawyer and secures freedom; He believes he was sentenced through made-up
evidence
He went to prison a naïve villager immediately after clearing form four when he
was sentenced to hang, but
March 23
PHILIPPINES:
Justice for Christine: VACC calls for reimposition of death penalty
Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Raza and Vice Mayor Marcial Ycong joined Oponganons
during the Mass held at noontime today, March 23, at the Sto. Niño de Mactan
Parish in Barangay Mactan.
Members of
March 22
SOUTH AFRICA:
Buthelezi says there should be debate on bringing back death penalty
IFP leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, has said that there should be a debate around
bringing back the death penalty in order to combat violent crime. He made the
comments at the party's
March 21
SOUTH AFRICA:
IFP promises to reopen debate on reinstatement of death penalty
The Inkatha Freedom Party promised safety of Gauteng residents and to reopen
the debate on the reinstatement of the death penalty as a way to fight crime.
The party held its provincial manifesto
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