The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on 15 October 2019 sentenced five war criminals to death for their crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971, reports UNB.

The Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab, has reportedly executed an 82-year-old man in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state.

A Cairo Court on 13 October 2019 handed down a death penalty to the Libyan terrorist Abdel Rahim Mohamed Abdullah al-Mismary for involvement in the 2017 Western Desert shoot-out, which left 16 policemen killed and 13 others injured.

The Giza Criminal Court on 12 October 2019 sentenced six out of 26 defendants to the death penalty over a 2016 terrorist attack on a hotel in Giza.