Shahram Sharghi, Ali Reza Aghaei and Pezhman Azizi
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death on charges of blasphemy over Whatsapp messages, BBC reported on April 8, 2024.
A tribunal has sentenced a man to death over the rape and murder of his niece, a student in 12th grade, in Natore’s Singra Upazila.
Kurdish dissident rapper Saman Yasin was arrested during nationwide protests in 2022
Death penalty for child rapists
Esmaeil Esmaeil-Zadeh, Mohammad-Amin Mohammad-Pour + Unk
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, on April 18, 2024 sentenced Wasiu Afolayan (36) and Kola Adeyemi (34), to death by hanging for offences bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery.
A Chattogram court on April 18, 2024 awarded death penalty to two men for killing three members of a family in city's Biyazid Bostami Thana area 19 years ago.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran