2022

IRAN - Death in Custody of Protester Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi

Iran Human Rights Calls for International Fact-Finding Mission

BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HUMAYUN AZAD MURDER CASE

A Dhaka court has sentenced four to death in the murder of Humayun Azad, the first known victim of a series of attacks by suspected militants in Bangladesh.

ISRAELI ON UAE DEATH ROW WON'T BE EXECUTED, OFFICIAL SAYS

Fida Kiwan, the Israeli woman sentenced to death for drug smuggling in the United Arab Emirates will not be executed but will serve a prison sentence instead, a senior Israeli official said on 5 April 2022.

MALAYSIA: YOUNG WOMAN CONVICTED OF HUSBAND’S MURDER ESCAPES THE GALLOWS

A 22-year-old woman escaped the death penalty in Malaysia on 10 April 2022, when the Muar High Court ordered her to be jailed for a period until pardoned by the Sultan of Johor, after she was found guilty of killing her husband five years ago.

IRAN - Narges Mohammadi and Aliyeh Motallebzadeh Arrested

And Sent Back to Qarchak Prison

BANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER IN RAJSHAHI

A court in Bangladesh on 10 April 2022 handed down the death penalty to four people for the murder of a sweets shop assistant in Rajshahi's Tanore Upazila last year.

INDIA: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN ASSAM FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF TWO TRIBAL GIRLS

Three persons were awarded death sentence on 8 April 2022 by a fast-track court in Assam for the rape and murder of two tribal girls last year.

USA - Texas. Wave of support for Melissa Lucio

The members of HoC have also signed the appeal

IRAN - Golmohammad ... executed in the Prison of Karaj City on April 11

IRAN - Milad Jafari killed of torture in Tehran

During detention by Tehran intelligence police

USA - Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson

First African-American Woman to Serve on U.S. Supreme Court

TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING GIRLFRIEND, TWIN SONS

Taiwan High Court’s Taichung Branch upheld on 29 March 2022 the death sentence for a man who killed his girlfriend and their two sons in November 2019.

VIETNAM: PEOPLE’S COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BANKER IN $18MN EMBEZZLEMENT CASE

The high-level People’s Court in Hanoi on 5 April 2022 upheld the death penalty handed down to the former director of a bank branch in Hai Phong City, northern Vietnam for embezzling VND414 billion (US$18.1 million).

IRAN - 3rd Public Execution Sentence In Less Than A Month

Name not disclosed

IRAN - Christian converts sentenced to prison and fines

IRAN - Ahmadreza Djalali Beaten by Evin Prison Officials

USA - Kentucky. Governor signed HB 269 into law

Exempting severely mentally ill from capital punishment

UAE: ISRAELI RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG POSSESSION

An Israeli woman was sentenced to death in a court in the United Arab Emirates on 5 April 2022 for possessing half a kilogram of cocaine.

SURGEONS EXECUTED CHINESE PRISONERS FOR ORGANS, SAYS ANU STUDY

A new Australian study says it has unearthed evidence that surgeons in China have harvested the hearts of death row prisoners before they were medically brain-dead.

VIETNAM: SOUTH KOREAN GETS DEATH FOR MURDERING FELLOW CITIZEN IN HCMC

A HCMC court sentenced a South Korean man to death on 28 March 2022 for killing a woman while committing a robbery almost three years ago.

INDONESIA: TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING 13 STUDENTS

An Indonesian teacher found guilty of raping 13 students at an Islamic boarding school, and who impregnated at least eight of the victims, was sentenced to death on 4 April 2022.

USA - Pennsylvania. Samuel Randolph exonerated and released

187th person to be exonerated

IRAN - At least 50 political prisoners await execution

A report from Javanehha

USA - Alabama. Brandon Sykes formally sentenced to death

MYANMAR: MILITARY TRIBUNAL SENTENCES EIGHT MORE YOUTHS TO DEATH

A Myanmar military tribunal has handed down death sentences to eight more youths accused of attacking junta targets in Yangon, bringing the total number of those facing the death penalty since the coup to over 110.

BANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 0.5 KG OF HEROIN

A court in Bangladesh on 31 March 2022 sentenced a woman caught with a 0.5 kg of heroin in Gaibandha in 2018 to death in a narcotics case.

SAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN EXPAT EXECUTED OVER KIDNAPPING AND RAPING CHILD

The Saudi Ministry of Interior on 28 March 2022 announced in a statement the execution of an Egyptian expatriate who was sentenced to death over luring two children, kidnapping a female child, torturing and raping her.

IRAN - Javaid Rehman Mandate Extended for Another Year

Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

USA - Missouri. Marvin Rice sentenced to death

First death sentence in Missouri in nine years

BANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BLOGGER ANANTA BIJOY

Four persons on 30 March 2022 were sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing writer and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das of Sylhet in May 2015.