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SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER

15 February 2007 :

Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for stabbing and clubbing another Saudi to death.
A statement on the official Saudi Press Agency said Omar Assiri was put to death in the Bahr Abu Sakina area of Assir province in the far south of the country for the premeditated murder of Ali Assiri. It was not clear if the two men were related or what the motive for the murder was.
 
(Sources: Reuters, 15/02/2007)

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Malaysia’s Court of Appeal has commuted the death sentence imposed on a former college student convicted of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, replacing it with 40 years’ imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.

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IRAN - Heydar Bamari and Mehdi Bamari executed in Kerman on May 13

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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.