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ZIMBABWE: MNANGAGWA GRANTS AMNESTY TO THOUSANDS OF NON-VIOLENT INMATES 15 May 2023 An amnesty has been granted to thousands of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of their jail term Read everything

SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN EASTERN PROVINCE FOR MURDERING EX-WIFE

15 May 2023

A Saudi national in the Eastern Province was executed on May 13, 2023 for killing his ex-wife, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

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IRAN - 6 men executed in Kerman on May 13

15 May 2023

Amrollah Adish, Kambiz Davarpanah and four unidentified men

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IRAN - Hossein Shabanzadeh executed in Rasht on May 11

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IRAN - Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari executed in Sanandaj on May 14

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INDIA: THREE MEN GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF JABALPUR COUPLE

14 May 2023

A court in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur has sentenced three men to death for killing a couple living next door in the city in 2021, terming the offence as "rarest of the rare".

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IRAN - Iran is entitled to chair an event of the United Nation's Human Rights Council

14 May 2023

The Iranian government tries to demean the opposition

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IRAN - Hossein Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 12

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USA - Arizona. Joe Cota Morales, a 1981 case, added to the Innocence List

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IRAN - Appointment of Iran to chair the UN Human Rights Council’s 2023 Social Forum

13 May 2023 Read everything

CHINA: DEATH UPHELD FOR FATHER, GIRLFRIEND IN CHILD TOSSING

13 May 2023

A father in Chongqing who killed his two children by tossing them out of a high-rise apartment window in 2020 along with his girlfriend, who prompted him, were both sentenced to death on May 11, 2023.

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