Saudi Arabia has executed 134 people so far this year, including six who were kids when they were arrested, The Death Penalty Project revealed in a report presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Read everythingSyria's President Bashar al-Assad on 15 September 2019 issued a decree to release or decrease the punishment of various prisoners, including some detained under the war-torn country's "terrorism law".
Read everythingA Damanhour criminal court in Egypt's Behiera governorate sentenced on 15 September 2019 six defendants to death, two to life in prison and acquitted eight others over charges of joining a terrorist group and manufacturing and possessing explosives.
Read everythingA Somali military court has sentenced a man to death and another to life in prison for their involvement in a car bomb that killed 12 people in Mogadishu, Strategic Intelligence reported on 12 September 2019.
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