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- DECEMBER 26, 2020IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seyed Paki executed in Qom Central Prison on December 26.
IRAN - Seyed Paki executed in Qom Central Prison on December 26.
DECEMBER 26, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: RAWALPINDI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DIFFERENTLY-ABLED MINOR
A Rawalpindi criminal trial court for gender-based violence sentenced on 19 December 2020 Muhammad Ayub to death for raping a 12-year-old differently-abled girl, ARY News reported.
DECEMBER 24, 2020JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: SUPREME COURT ALLOWS RETRIAL FOR ‘LONGEST’ DEATH ROW PRISONER
Japan’s highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.
DECEMBER 24, 2020SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTE MAN FOR MURDER
Al Shabaab militants in Lower Shabelle on 22 December 2020 publicly executed by firing squad a man for murder.
DECEMBER 24, 2020IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 prisoners were executed at Ahvaz Sepidar Prison on December 24, 2020.
One of the executed was Jafar Zabi. The name of the other three has not been obtained.
- DECEMBER 23, 2020DEATH PENALTY
USA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA", updated to 1 October 2020
2,553 death row prisoners.
- DECEMBER 23, 2020KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
KAZAKHSTAN: NO NEED TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL
The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan decided that there was no need to amend the Constitution for the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 23, 2020SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB COURT CUTS OFF A MAN’S HAND FOR STEALING
Al Shabab militants in Somalia on 22 December 2020 publicly cut off the right hands of a man after a sharia court convicted him of breaking into a shop and stealing about a 26,000 Somali shilling.
DECEMBER 23, 2020EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: CAIRO COURT TO SENTENCE 3 DEFENDANTS TO DEATH OVER TORCHING HOUSE, KILLING CHILD
Cairo’s Criminal Court referred the death sentences of three individuals found guilty for the death of a child to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam for approval on 22 December 2020.
- DECEMBER 22, 2020DEATH PENALTY
APPEAL OF REPRIEVE, IHR AND HOC TO THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT NOT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE DEATH PENALTY IN IRAN
DECEMBER 22, 2020BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHAMIUL MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court on 20 December 2020 sentenced a woman and another one to death for killing her son Shamiul.
DECEMBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDERER OF SERVICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
A sessions court in Islamabad on 19 December 2020 awarded death sentence to Baitullah and life imprisonment to Gul Siddique for the murder of Major Mohammad Laraib of the Special Services Group (SSG) last year.