IRAN - Judiciary Blocks Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Bank Account, Cutting Off Funds for Family.

Egypt on 28 July 2020 executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city of Ismailiya in 2013, a security official said.

A young Pakistani Muslim walked into a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar on 29 July 2020 and shot and killed a fellow Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy, a police officer said.

Two suspected masterminds in the murder of former Executive Secretary of Enugu State Committee on Adada state creation, Mr Ejimofor Ozongwu, were sentenced to death on 27 July 2020 by an Enugu State High Court.

Sudan has found a mass grave that most likely contains remains of 28 army officers executed in 1990 for plotting an attempted coup against the former president Omar al-Bashir, the public prosecutor office said late on 23 July 2020.

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of five protesters arrested at the nationwide December 2017/January 2018 demonstrations in Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan, Iran Human Rights (IHR) confirmed on 26 July 2020.

A Bangladeshi man on 28 July 2020 was sentenced to death by the High Court in George Town, Malaysia, after he was found guilty for the murder of a countryman two years ago.

According to Iran Human Rights, that reported the news on 25 July 2020, on the morning of 14 July, a 21-year-old prisoner on death row was executed in Qazvin Central Prison.

The People’s Court of HCM City on 27 July 2020 handed down five death sentences and four terms of life imprisonment to defendants involved in a major drug ring led by Van Kinh Duong.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on 27 July 2020 drug offenders should be executed by lethal injection, in a fresh push for the death penalty as part of his anti-narcotics crackdown that has killed thousands.

IRAN - Supreme Court upheld death sentences of five protesters arrested at demonstrations

According to Iran Human Rights, a prisoner on death row was executed in Naghdeh Prison on 22 July 2020.