The news from the three battles.

USA - Sonia Sotomayor’s Lonely Battle at the Supreme Court

To Give the Voiceless a Voice

IRAN - Unsolved Case of Ukraine’s Flight 752

Downed By Iran’s IRGC

COUNCIL OF EUROPE: MEASURES AGAINST THE TRADE IN GOODS USED FOR TORTURE OR EXECUTION

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2021 adopted a Recommendation (CM/Rec(2021)2) inviting member States to take measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment o

IRAN - Cellmate Describes Torture and Humiliation of Ali Younesi

USA - Senators Urge Biden To Shut Down Guantánamo

Calling It A 'Symbol Of Lawlessness'

TAIWAN: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST WHO CAUSED NINE DEATHS

The Taiwan High Court on 14 April 2021 upheld the death penalty handed down to Li Kuo-hui, an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, for starting a fire in an apartment building in Zhonghe, New Taipei in November 2017 that resulted in the deaths of nine people.

USA - Arizona. State Paid $1.5 Million for Execution Drugs

While Facing a Budget Crisis

MYANMAR: REGIME HANDS MENTALLY ILL MAN DEATH SENTENCE

A person who suffers from mental illness was sentenced to death along with 18 other people by Myanmar’s military regime on 8 April 2021 after being accused of banditry and murder in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, in late March.

IRAN - Djalali moved out of solitary

Says Amnesty

IRAN - Arsalan Moradi executed on April 13 in Birjand Prison

For drugs

USA - Tennessee. Legislative Committees Approve Intellectual Disability Bill

House Bill 1062 and Senate Bill 1349

MYANMAR: SEVEN MORE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY COURT-MARTIAL

Myanmar's state-run television reported on 13 April 2021 that seven people had been sentenced to death by court-martial for their roles in the killing of a woman who purportedly cooperated with the military.