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- APRIL 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. USE OF DEATH PENALTY CONTINUES INCREASING
the Iranian regime's state-controlled media reported that 15 prisoners were sentenced to death in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) and that death sentences for three other prisoners in Fars Province (southern Iran) had been upheld.
- APRIL 20, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. AMNESTY REGRETS PROPOSAL TO EXTEND THE USE OF DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International Malaysia said it regretted that the Malaysian government was proposing in its Water Industry Bill 2006 to extend the use of the death penalty for anyone found guilty of contaminating water sources.
- APRIL 19, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHINA “SELLING PRISONERS' ORGANS”, BRITISH TRANSPLANTATION SOCIETY
top British transplant surgeons accused China of harvesting the organs of thousands of executed prisoners a year to sell for transplants.
- APRIL 19, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
CHINA, IRAN, SAUDI, US MAIN EXECUTIONERS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
more than 2,000 people were known to have been executed around the world last year, the vast majority of them in China, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Amnesty International said.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TEN 'CONVICTED MURDERERS' HANGED
ten men convicted of murder were hanged in a prison in the Iranian capital.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
- APRIL 19, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Sialkot, Pakistan, sentenced to death Muhammad Fazil with a fine of Rs. 100,000 (1,350 EU) after finding him guilty of murdering two people.
- APRIL 19, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER COMMUTED
the Lahore High Court, Pakistan, commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences given to two men for murder and reduced the sentence of two women convicted in the same trial.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
- APRIL 19, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL
an appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, upheld a death sentence for Trinh Huu, an Australian man of Vietnamese origin convicted of heroin trafficking.
- APRIL 18, 2006DEATH PENALTY
OKLAHOMA, USA. MAN EXECUTED FOR 1996 TRIPLE MURDER
Richard Thornburg Jr. was executed by lethal injection for killing three people over a drug debt in 1996, an Oklahoma prison spokesman said.