IRAN - Kurdish Political Prisoner Zeinab Jalalian Transferred to Jail Far Away From Family

From midnight on November 10, 2020, the President of Hands Off Cain Rita Bernardini has embarked on a hunger strike aimed at the Government and Parliament to address what is happening in prisons.

Ten men have been recently executed in Minya’s high-security Sharq al-Nil Prison, Youm7 reported on 9 November 2020.

An Ekiti State high court sitting in Ado Ekiti on 11 November 2020 sentenced two persons; Lanre Kayode, 34 and Olanrewaju Aremu, 35, to death by hanging for conspiracy and burglary.

USA - United Nations. U.S. Death Penalty Criticized by U.N. Human Rights Council.

IRAN - Nasrin Sotoudeh has tested positive for the coronavirus

The Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced in parliament on 7 November 2020, stipulating the death penalty as the maximum punishment in rape cases.

The Deir al-Balah Court of First Instance on 5 November 2020 sentenced to death by hanging (A/A) for intentional murder, the Human Rights and Democracy Media Center "SHAMS” reported.

The public flogging sentences for two young men were carried out on 8 November 2020 in the city of Golbahar, in northeast Iran.

IRAN - Unidentified man executed on November 7 at Mashhad Central Prison.

Joe Biden has promised to end private prisons, cash bail, minimum mandatory sentences, the death penalty, and reduce the prison population by more than half.

So-called "honor crimes" will now be punishable like any other crimes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the Gulf state announced a sweeping overhaul of its Islamic legal code on 7 November 2020.