A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency, PTI reported on December 4, 2024.
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France has asked Indonesia to transfer a French death row convict, who has been jailed for drug crimes in the country since 2005, a senior minister told AFP on November 29, 2024.
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Saudi Arabia has put over 300 people to death in 2024, according to an AFP tally, after four executions announced on December 3 brought the kingdom's total to a level far outstripping the highest known annual figures.
A Vietnamese court on December 3, 2024 rejected a real estate tycoon’s appeal, upholding the death sentence handed down for the embezzlement of $12bn.
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