Political prisoner

Iranian-German dissident kidnapped from the UAE

over the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd

Fariba Hosseini and Nazifeh …

(aka Haj Nabi Kharkoohi)

A former police general found guilty of ordering the killing of his bodyguard and covering up the murder was sentenced to death by a Jakarta court on 13 February 2023.

The Hambantota High Court on 15 February 2023 sentenced to death four Police officers, including an Officer-in-Charge (OIC) over the death of an individual during a raid on a gambling den in Thissamaharamaya.

The Belarusian parliament's lower chamber, the House of Representatives, on 21 February 2023 approved the second and final reading of a bill that envisages the death penalty for high treason for civil servants and members of the military.

Four Somali officials, including from the military, police and the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) were executed on 2 February 2023 by firing squad in the nation’s capital of Mogadishu.