IRAN - The German Judges Association has awarded its Human Rights Prize to Nasrin Sotoudeh

A Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced on 6 September 2020 three members of a terrorist cell, known as “Al-Harazat”, to death for their involvement in several attacks across Saudi Arabia.

The High Court in Ipoh, Malaysia, on 17 August 2020 sentenced a Nepali man to death after finding him guilty of murdering a lorry driver and fellow countryman four years ago.

Three men who received the capital punishment for bludgeoning a man to death with a hammer and a brick have lost their final appeal, The Gulf Daily News reported on 10 August 2020.

According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner was executed on 1 September 2020 in Ardabil Central Prison.

A musician in Nigeria's northern state of Kano on 10 August 2020 was sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.

A court in the central province of Nghe An on 10 August 2020 sentenced four men to death for trafficking 28.7 kilograms of methamphetamine from Laos.

The High Court of Tanzania in Bukoba has convicted Esther Amani (36) from Kalenge Village in Biharamulo District of murder after she was found guilty of killing six family members and was sentenced to death by hanging, the Daily News reported on 21 August 2020.

Robert Duboise, who had been sentenced to death in 1985, walked out of prison.

A Saudi court has sentenced seven Islamic State militants to death over a 2014 shooting attack that killed eight Shi'ite Muslims near the eastern city of al-Ahsa, state television reported on 2 September 2020.

The People’s Court of the southwestern border province of Tay Ninh on 7 August 2020 handed a death penalty to a 40-year-old Singaporean man for drug trafficking.

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