SAUDI ARABIA: YEMENI WOMAN EXECUTED FOR HER HUSBAND’S MURDER

18 February 2020 :

The Ministry of Interior on 30 January 2020 issued a statement regarding the execution of a woman named Aisha Ahmed Omar Bahasin - Yemeni nationality, in Jeddah Governorate, in the Makkah Region, for her husband’s murder.
 
(www.spa.gov.sa/2028545)

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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