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- SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men were executed in Shiraz on September 18
Shahin Salami, Sepehr Nourani, Taher Arezoumand and Kamran Heidari
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR INSULTING PROPHET MUHAMMAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA
A Pakistan court awarded a death sentence to a man from the Punjab province for insulting the Prophet Muhammad on social media, a court official said on September 14, 2024.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Karimi is scheduled to be hanged on 3 October
Unable to come up with the 1.5-million euro blood money
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Darvishi executed in Gorgan on September 18
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Eriese Tisdale resentenced to death
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024WashingtonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Washington. Washington closes execution chamber at state penitentiary
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2024IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA FREES NIGERIAN ON DEATH ROW FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Nigerian, Emmanuel Ihejirika, previously sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia, has been released after years in prison.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Richard Branson and 350 business leaders renew call to end death penalty
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 37 TO DEATH IN COUP TRIAL
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death 37 people, including three United States citizens, on charges of taking part in a failed coup in May.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Hassanzehi Sani executed in Bandar Abbas on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 34th Week of “No to Executions Tuesdays” Campaign Begins Across 21 Iranian Prisons
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Amir Naderzadeh, Sajad Fadayi, Abdollah Abdolsamad, Behzad Bagheri and Mobasher …
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN -messaggio dalla prigione di Evin Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi urges UN to take action against gender apartheid in Iran
a message from Evin prison
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Abdoljalil Ehsani, Yahya Zargari, Mehdi Jahanpour
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Honoring the 2nd Anniversary of the 2022 Iran Uprising
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024ThailandDEATH PENALTYTHAILAND: EX-PM THAKSIN SHINAWATRA GETS ROYAL PARDON
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has received a royal pardon, ending his parole on August 11, 2024, according to his lawyer, Winyat Chartmontri.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Safari executed in Isfahan on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on September 16
Abdoljalil Ehsani, Yahya Zargari, Mehdi Jahanpour
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alimorad Hassanzadeh executed in Gorgan on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Jahanpour was 16 when committed the crime
One of the three men executed in Shiraz on September 16
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Second Anniversary of the State-Sanctioned Killing of Jina Amini
Security Forces Prevent Jina's Family from Visiting Her Grave
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: EXPAT GUARD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SCHOOL TEACHER
The Criminal Court in Kuwait has sentenced an expatriate, formerly a security guard at a school, to death for sexually assaulting a teacher from the same school, Al-Seyassah daily reported on August 25, 2024.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sasan Ben and Saeed Khajeh Heydari executed in Shiraz on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - NGOs’ Joint Statement Highlights Continuing Impunity for Iranian Regime’s 1988 Massacre
And Ongoing Human Rights Violations
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 34 female prisoners hunger strike in Iran for anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arastoo Safarghomi and Rasoul Pourmajed executed in Tabriz on September 15
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTYUSA - 3 Americans and 34 Others Sentenced to Death in Congo
On Coup Charges
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2024EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
ETHIOPIA PARDONS 178 DEFENSE FORCE MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Ethiopia’s Defense Force announced on September 10, 2024 that it has pardoned 178 ethnic Tigrayan members of the Ethiopian Defense Force, who were sentenced to death by court martial in connection with the November 2020 attack on the Northern Command in t
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH SENTENCES OF CONVICTS IN 2013 GANDHI MAIDAN BLASTS COMMUTED
The Patna high court on September 11, 2024 commuted the death penalty of four persons convicted for the 2013 blasts targeting Narendra Modi's poll rally in Patna to 30 years of imprisonment.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Court Denies Prosecutor’s Motion to Vacate Marcellus Williams’ Conviction
Williams is scheduled to be executed on September 24, 2024