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BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE IN PATUAKHALI

05 September 2014 :

In Bangladesh, a Patuakhali district court sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Galachipa upazila of the district.  The convict is identified as Jahirul Islam, 45.
The court also sentenced Jahirul's brother Md Jafar to life term imprisonment in this connection.
According to case statement Jahirul and Jafar beaten to death Happy on April 8, 2008.
 
(Sources: Observer Online Report, 02/09/2014)

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VIETNAM: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING 4 FAMILY MEMBERS WITH CYANIDE

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A woman in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam was sentenced to death on November 27, 2025 for killing family members including two young children in a series of cyanide poisonings that shocked her community.

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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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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.