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- AUGUST 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO TO LIFE IN PRISON
Indian President Pratibha Patil commuted the death sentences of Sattan and Guddu of Uttar Pradesh to life imprisonment.
- AUGUST 1, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE POLICE EXECUTES TWO OVER VIOLENCE: GOVERNMENT
police in China’s restive Xinjiang region executed two people allegedly involved in deadly violence over the weekend, local authorities said.
- AUGUST 1, 2011Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
SRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE ON PREGNANT WOMAN ON HOLD
Judge Padman Surasena of the Colombo High Court in Sri Lanka suspended a death sentence about to be handed to Pichchi Iresha Kumudini, 35, for possessing 142.04 grams of heroin after she informed Courts that she was pregnant.
- AUGUST 1, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ACID VICTIM SPARES ATTACKER FROM SAME FATE
Iranian woman Ameneh Bahrami, who was blinded and disfigured by Majid Movahedi who threw acid into her face in 2004, pardonned him at the last minute.
- AUGUST 1, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCED FOUR TO DEATH FOR RAPE
a court in Khomeini Shahr, in Iran's Isfahan province, sentenced four men to death for gang rape, ISNA reported. In late May, 14 men allegedly crashed a party in the city of Khomeini Shahr, locked all the men in a room, and raped the women attending the p
- JULY 31, 2011DEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO T&T GOVT: STOP THE HANGINGS
the death penalty, discrimination against lesbians and gays, excessive use of force by police officers and backlogs in the courts were human rights concerns listed in report on Trinidad & Tobago submitted by Amnesty International to the United Nations Uni
- JULY 30, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR CHILD MURDER: REPORT
Iran hanged a man, identified by the initials HS, for murdering an eight-year-old boy in Qom who was on his way from home to a nearby grocery shop, the Fars news agency reported. He was hanged in a prison in Qom in the presence of the victim's family.
- JULY 30, 2011GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIAN COURT CONDEMNS MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDER, TREASON
Justice Emmanuel Amadi of the Gambian High Court in Banjul sentenced Abdoulie Sonko to death and life imprisonment for murder and treason, PANA confirmed.
- JULY 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR THREE IN BUSINESSMAN MURDER CASE
at a fast track court in Narsinghpur, India, additional sessions judge S K Pandey sentenced Rahul Razak, 22, Satish Parochi, 26, and Ashok Vishwakarma, 35, to death for into murdering Pankaj Thakur, 23, at Bhedaghat on May 5, 2009.
- JULY 30, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN 19 FOR RAPE
a 19-year-old unidentified man convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy was hanged in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, the Khorasan newspaper reported. He was executed in the city’s central prison, the report added.
- JULY 30, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: THREE MEN EXECUTED IN TAIF
in Saudi Arabia, brothers Muhammad and Saud Al-Joaed were beheaded in Taif in the Mecca Province for murdering Hilal Al-Harithy with a gun in a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.
- JULY 30, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN ON DRUG-SMUGGLING CHARGES
a man, identified only by the initials H.D., was hanged in the southern Iranian town of Minab on charges of drug smuggling. The report in the "Kayhan" newspaper did not say whether the execution was carried out in public.