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INDIA: MUMBAI GUNMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab

07 May 2010 :

in India, judge M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Pakistani Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, 22, to death for a 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed more than 160 people.
He was the lone surviving gunman from the three day shooting rampage that started on November 26, 2008.
Kasab was sentenced to death for four crimes and about two dozen lesser sentences ranging from life imprisonment to a month in jail.
 
(Sources: New York Times, 07/05/2010)

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TAIWAN: HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MALAYSIAN STUDENT'S KILLER

29 January 2026

The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 29, 2026 resentenced Liang Yu-chih to life imprisonment for the 2020 rape and murder of a Malaysian university student, overturning a previous death sentence after a court-ordered retrial.

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IRAN - 11 people executed on January 28

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Urgent actions

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.