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CHINA EXECUTED FOUR CANADIANS FOR DRUG CRIMES, SAYS OTTAWA 20 March 2025 Four Canadians were executed in China on drug-related charges earlier this year, Canadian authorities confirmed on March 19, 2025. Read everything

IRAN - Latest UN Report: Deadly Repression of Kurds, Balochs, and Arabs in Iran

eport by Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran

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USA - Arkansas. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed nitrogen gas legislation

Fifth state to adopt the method

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USA - Louisiana. Jessie Hoffman, 46, Black, was executed

First nitrogen execution in the state

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IRAN - Faramarz Keyfari Executed in Lakan on February 25

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IRAN - Hatam Shahpasandi executed in Boroujerd on March 17

245 esecuzioni dall'inizio dell'anno

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IRAN - Morteza Kazemzadeh and Mohammadreza Basiri executed in Semnan on March 13

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IRAN - Yaser Jahanbani executed in Hamedan on March 16

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IRAN - Abdolbari Jahani executed in Bandarabbas on February 25

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IRAN - Ezatollah Arab and Moein Arab executed in Bandarabbas on February 26

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USA - Texas. SB 990 to allow death penalty for murders of children under 15 moves to Senate floor

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INDIA: UTTAR PRADESH COURT GIVES DEATH PENALTY TO 3 MEN FOR KILLING 24 DALITS IN 1981

A Uttar Pradesh court on March 18, 2025 ordered death penalty to three men linked to the killings of 24 Dalits in Dehuli in 1981.

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CHINA: EX-ENGINEER TO BE EXECUTED FOR SPYING

A former Chinese engineer has been sentenced to death for leaking state secrets to a foreign power, Beijing's spy agency said on March 18, 2025.

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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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