Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is pleased that the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act 2017, which received royal assent on 27 December 2017, has finally, after much delay, come into force on 15 March 2018.
According to the IHR source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Isfahan Central Prison on drug-related charges.
A court in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai sentenced to death five persons who poisoned illicit liquor that left 13 people dead in 2000.
A court in southwest China's Yunnan Province sentenced two people from Myanmar to death for drug trafficking and killing a Chinese policeman.
According to Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), on the morning a prisoner was executed at Saveh Prison on the charge of raping and murdering a five-year-old child.
A court in Thailand’s Deep South sentenced six men to death for their roles in an October 2016 bombing that killed a woman and injured 21 other people at a local night market.
According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison.
Egypt’s highest appellate court confirmed the death penalty for six people in connection with violence in the wake of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Erick Davila, 31, Black, was executed. He was then injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m..
Bahrain’s king has commuted death sentences handed down to four men by a military court to life in prison, state news agency BNA reported.
Four prisoners were executed in Zahedan, Rajai Shahr.
During the presentation of the Annual Report by the Organization against Torture in Tunisia (OCTT), the Vice-President, Chokri Letaief, announced that there are 77 people sentenced to death in Tunisia.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is an iranian writer and political activist condemned to six years of prison for having written a script, not published, that criticized the practice of stoning in Iran.
