IRAN - Four prisoners executed in Urmia on October 29, 2020, and one committed suicide.

A Malian court on 28 October 2020 handed a death sentence to a suspected jihadist and his co-defendant, his lawyer said, after he pleaded guilty to shooting five people to death in a 2015 attack and planning two other attacks targeting Westerners that killed 37.

Somali military court on 26 October 2020 executed a man by firing squad in Luq town of Somalia’s southern region Gedo.

An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City on 28 October 2020 upheld the death sentence handed down to a Malaysian woman for illegally transporting over four kg of cocaine.

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IRAN - The manager of Iran’s main video-sharing platform sentenced to 10 years

IRAN - A women bike rider arrested in a street by the moral police in Najaf Abad on October 19, 2020.

IRAN - Women’s Images Removed From Graveyards.

IRAN - Six More Inmates Commit Suicide in Urmia.

A local court in Warangal on 28 October 2020 awarded death penalty to a migrant worker after holding him guilty of killing nine persons and dumping them in a well near a gunny bags manufacturing unit in Gorrekunta village on 21 May.

According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner was executed on 21 October 2020 morning in Sanandaj Central Prison.

The Intermediate People's Court of Xi'an on 27 October 2020 sentenced a man to death for murdering his girlfriend's two-year-old son.