Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld on 1st July 2020 death sentences against three defendants convicted on terrorism-related charges in the 2014 case known in the media as the Ansar Al-Sharia case.

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Belarus's Supreme Court has upheld the appeal of a death-row inmate and annulled his sentence in a murder case, a very rare move in the tightly controlled state led by autocratic President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Egypt’s highest court on 1st July 2020 upheld a death sentence for a former monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo in 2018.

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on 1st July 2020 sentenced two armed robbers to death by hanging for killing a couple, Mr Michael and Mrs Juana Aigbe, at the Fate area of Ilorin in 2016.

Muhammad Iqbal, who spent the last 21 years on death row for a crime he was convicted of committing when he was a juvenile, has been released, according to the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP).

Ruhollah Zam, a journalist, has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth”, Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced on 30 June 2020.

An Egyptian court has sentenced a housewife to death by hanging for killing her baby daughter by feeding her a caustic substance at a private medical clinic in Beheira Governorate, Egyptian media reported on 1st July 2020.

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Egypt has executed Libyan militant Abdul Rahim Mohammed Al Mesmari, the mastermind behind deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, the Ministry of Defence said in a video statement on its official account on YouTube on 27 June 2020.