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MALAYSIA: EX-POLICEMEN'S DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED TO 40 YEARS IN JAIL FOR KILLING MECHANIC 02 May 2024 Two former policemen escaped the gallows after the Federal Court’s three-member panel on April 30, 2024 commuted the death sentences imposed on them to 40 years in jail for the murder of an Indonesian mechanic 18 years ago. Read everything

BANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HABIGANJ MURDER CASE

A court in Habiganj has sentenced seven people to death and 10 others to life imprisonment on the charge of killing a man at Sadar upazila in 2003.

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IRAN - Iran commutes death sentence for Babak Zanjani, a billionaire tycoon

01 May 2024 Read everything

IRAN - 1 woman and 3 men executed in Birjand on April 30

Unidentified woman + Mehdi Eshterak, Mohammad Shehbakhsh, Mahmoud Gorgij

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IRAN - Saeed Imani executed in Khorramabad on April 30

01 May 2024 Read everything

IRAN - 2 unidentified men execute in Isfahan on April 28

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IRAN - 5 men executed in Isfahan on April 29

Behnam Khakpour, Payam Farazandeh, Majid Gorgipour, Delagha Habib and Reza Shahsavandi

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IRAN - Farzad Geravand and Reza Barati executed in Karaj on April 30

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IRAN - Anwar Khezri Executed in Karaj on May 1

A Kurdish religious prisoner

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IRAN - Hojat Shamskhani and Rashed Baluchi executed in Bandar-Abbas on April 28

Notwithstanding Baluchi's acute mental condition

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IRAN - Mansour Narouyi executed in Gonbad Kavous on April 28

01 May 2024 Read everything

IRAN - Mousa Fazeli executed in Qom on April 30

01 May 2024 Read everything

IRAN - Alireza Sargolzayi executed in Mashhad on April 30

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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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