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MYANMAR: MORE THAN 90 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY MILITARY COURTS 21 December 2021 More than 90 people have been sentenced to death by military courts in Myanmar’s Yangon region since the country’s army overthrew civilian rule in a Feb. 1 coup, according to reports in Myanmar’s junta-controlled media.  Read everything

UAE: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY ABU DHABI COURT

20 December 2021

The Criminal Court of Abu Dhabi has sentenced a Pakistani expatriate to death for possessing narcotic and psychotropic substances with the intention of promoting them, Gulf News reported on 20 December 2021.

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TUNISIA: SENTENCES RANGING FROM 12 YEARS IN PRISON TO DEATH PENALTY HANDED DOWN IN TERRORISM CASES

20 December 2021

The criminal chamber at the judicial counter-terrorism division rendered judgements in several terror cases.

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IRAN - Fatemeh Aslani executed in Isfahan Central Prison on December 19

20 December 2021

129th execution of a woman since 2013

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USA - 2021 Gallup Poll: Public Support for Capital Punishment Remains at Half-Century Low

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IRAN - Heydar Ghorbani executed in Sanandaj on December 19.

19 December 2021

Kurdish political prisoner

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IRAN - Abdolsalam Barahooi executed in Isfahan Prison on December 12

19 December 2021

For drugs

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IRAN - Bakhtiar Sarmadi and Hossein Heydarzadeh executed in Adel-Abad on December 12

19 December 2021

For murder

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IRAN - Mohammad Tazehkar executed in Meshgin Shahr Prison on December 12

19 December 2021

For murder

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IRAN - Mohammad Khodai (Khodayi) executed in Ardabil on December 15

19 December 2021

For murdering wife

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IRAN - Massoumeh Zare’i executed in Amol prison on 14 December

19 December 2021

128th woman since 2013

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IRAN - Hashem Amiri executed in Gorgan Prison on December 12

19 December 2021

For murder

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IRAN - Four men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 15

19 December 2021

Hamed Mousavi, Kourosh Mazaheri, Mahmood Mohmoodi, and Davoud ...

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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