news - 13 February 2025 - INDIA

INDIA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE AND MURDER

A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the gang rape and murder of a teenager as well as the killing of her father and toddler-aged niece

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news - 13 February 2025 - IRAN

IRAN - On February 8, a woman who partially undressed on a street in Tehran was arrested

The arrest of three other individuals in connection with the incident

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news - 13 February 2025 - Texas

USA - Texas. The Baptist church alongside the victims, not the culprits

The case of Steven Nelson who had killed a Baptist pastor

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IRAN - Mehdi Shabakhsh Pirsorani and Tayeb Javadi executed in Isfahan on February 12

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IRAN - Salman Hamdard executed in Borujerd on February 5

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USA - Louisiana. Executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces

13 February 2025

After 15 years

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IRAN - Pejman Soltani sentenced to death

13 February 2025

Kurdish political prisoner, arrested during the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” movement

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IRAN: INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO SAVE BEHROUZ EHSANI AND MEHDI HASSANI

27 January 2025

Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours

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