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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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently commuted the death penalty of a man convicted for sexually assaulting his minor daughter [State of Tamil Nadu Vs Murugan].

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On International Girls in ICT Day, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) renewed its call for Taliban to lift restrictions on girls’ education, warning that millions remain out of school nearly four and a half years after their return to power.

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SRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR SUSPECT WHO KILLED COP AFTER 18 YEAR TRIAL

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An individual on April 22, 2026 was sentenced to death in Sri Lanka for the murder of a police officer during a raid in Baddegama in 2008.

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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

25 August 2025  Read everything
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