SAUDI ARABIA: MAN DECAPITATED FOR MURDER

14 June 2010 :

Saudi Arabian national Hanni al-Barqawi was executed by beheading in Mecca for the premeditated murder of Sami al-Sawat, the interior ministry announced in a statement on the official SPA news agency.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 13/06/2010)

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The Orissa High Court on January 15, 2025 commuted the death sentences of nine individuals to life imprisonment in connection with a 2016 triple murder case.

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HANDS OFF CAIN APPEAL FOR THE 6 POLITICAL PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PMOI MEMBERSHIP IN IRAN

03 December 2024

To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran

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