Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer jailed on spying and propaganda charges, has been temporarily released from prison.

IRAN - Jafar Hassani executed in Rasht Central Prison on November 1.

IRAN - Iranian political prisoners are being “systematically starved”

A Chinese court sentenced on 6 November 2020 the former chairman of Hengfeng Bank, Cai Guohua, to death with two-year reprieve after convicting him of abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, receiving bribes and illegal loans, the court said.

Merowe Criminal Court on 2 November 2020 sentenced Awad Adam Hussein to death by hanging for raping and killing the four-year girl child, Areej Samir, at Al-Gorair area, Merowe Locality.

A court in the semi-autonomous Somalia state of Puntland has sentenced two men to death for the rape and killing of a 14-year old girl, Somali Affairs reported on 4 November 2020.

A nurse in China on 30 October 2020 was sentenced to death for serious theft and intentional homicide.

The driver and two other staff of a Hanif Paribahan bus on 1st November 2020 were sentenced to death for killing North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel.

Two men convicted of dealing heroin have had their death sentences overturned by the UAE’s top court, Khaleej Times reported on 4 November 2020.

A 61-year-old man on 2 November 2020 was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in Singapore for trafficking in at least 78.77g of heroin, almost three decades after escaping the hangman’s noose for killing a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer.

A man, who lived with two wives, was sentenced to death on 29 October 2020 after he beat his second wife to death over dowry in Bogra in 2016.

According to semi-official news website Javan Online, a prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder was executed in recent days in Rajai Shahr Prison, IHR reported on 29 October 2020.